TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Community and Preventive Medicine A1 - Pannu, Amanda Ashcraft A2 - Le, Tao, A2 - Mendoza, Michael D., A2 - Coffa, Diana, A2 - Saint-Hilaire, Lamercie, PY - 2018 T2 - First Aid for the® Family Medicine Boards, 3rd Edition AB - 1° prevention: Disease prevention measures such as counseling for at-risk behaviors, immunizations, and chemoprevention that are taken before the disease develops.2° prevention: Defined as early detection and treatment of asymptomatic disease, including risk assessment.3° prevention: Management of chronic diseases to prevent or minimize complications.Characteristics that make a disease appropriate for screening include:Disease leads to significant morbidity and mortality.Effective treatment is available.Disease is detectable in the asymptomatic period.Testing is accurate and simple.Treatment administered during the asymptomatic period yields a better outcome than treatment in the symptomatic period.Characteristics of risk factors that would be appropriate for screening are:High prevalence of the risk factor in the population to be screened.Large portions of those with the risk factor are unidentified.Associated disease should have a high incidence in the population to be screened.Disease should have serious consequences.Readily available treatment that can modify the risk factor.Risk modification should ↓ disease incidence. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/13 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1208793915 ER -