LEVELS OF MEDICAL PREVENTION

Abstract

Medical prevention is aimed to prevent and reduce the risk of disease, the risk of its progression, the risk of its complications and the risk of death. Medical prevention includes systems of measures and technologies of not only medical but also social nature, including the system of ideological orientation, the system of child-raising, the system of education, the system of social security and the legal system. Today it is common to differentiate stages of medical prevention – primary, secondary and tertiary. This article focused on the levels of medical prevention in the context of the stages usually defined. The primary prevention stage includes six levels: first – social, second – genetic, third – psychogenetic, fourth – ontogenetic, fifth – riskogenetic, sixth – pathogenetic. The secondary prevention stage aims to prevent complications and recurrence of diseases and includes two levels (seventh and eighth): nosogenetic and nosological. The tertiary prevention stage aims to prevent defects and death. This stage includes one level (ninth): postnosological. The highlighting of levels of medical prevention in the context of its generally accepted stages should contribute to solving the problems of organisational and technological support for the development of the health care system.