SECONDARY PREVENTIONHALTS THE PROGRESS

OF DISEASE AT ITS INCIPIENT STAGE

PREVENTS COMPLICATIONS

NITHIN NAIR

SECONDARY PREVENTIONPHASE OF DISEASES

AIM

ACTIONSTARGET/USES

SHORTCOMINGS

PHASE OF DISEASE• Early post pathogenic phase

OF DISEASESTAGE EARLY

AIMTO CURE AND PREVENT THE DISEASE

PROCESS

TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, THE

COMPLICATIONS AND THE SEQUELAE

TO SHORTEN THE PERIOD OF DISABILITY

ACTIONS• Measures available to individuals and

communities for early detection and prompt intervention to control disease and minimize disabilityIndividual and mass case

finding measures

Screening surveys

Selective examination

TARGET

• Individuals with established disease.

Early diagnosis

Adequate treatment

USES

LESSER DEPENDENCY RATE

MINIMIZES LOAD ON HEALTH SERVICES AND

CONSERVES RESOURCES IN GENERAL

BETTER COST EFFECTIVE STRATEGY

SHORTCOMINGS/DRAWBACKS

• Difficulty in diagnosis during incubation period.• Varied clinical presentation, clinical similarities.

• Difficulty of diagnosis in prodromal stage.• Minor clinical manifestations with fast spread and

complications .

• Patient subjected to mental anguish, physical pain.• Paucity of technological facilities• Increasing cost for diagnosis and management.