RT Book, Section A1 Pannu, Amanda Ashcraft A2 Le, Tao, A2 Mendoza, Michael D., A2 Coffa, Diana, A2 Saint-Hilaire, Lamercie, SR Print(0) ID 1208793915 T1 Community and Preventive Medicine T2 First Aid for the® Family Medicine Boards, 3rd Edition YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259835018 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1208793915 RD 2024/10/12 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.