Primordial prevention | AIPGDEE Guidance

       Primordial prevention is used to:

     A. Prevent development of risk factor in the community.

     B. Prevent the transmission of diseases.

     C. Prevent the development of diseases.

     D. To establish the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

        Ans. (A) - Prevent development of risk factor in the community 

• Primordial Prevention a new concept is receiving special attention in the prevention of chronic diseases. *

• This primary prevention in its purest sense, that is prevention of the emergence or development of risk factor in countries or population groups in which they have not appeared.

• For example, many adult health problems (e.g. obesity, hypertension) have their early origins in childhood, because this is the time when lifestyles are formed (for example, smoking, eating patterns, physical exercise)

• In primordial prevention, efforts are directed towards discouraging children from adopting harmful lifestyles. The main intervention in primordial prevention is through individual and mass education.