... prevent the disease manifesting not only in that one child but throughout the country taking the number of cases of fatal childhood dieses down dramatically. http://www.google/images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/measles/images/MMR%2520charts_4485_image001.gif This is the UK annual notifications of death between the years of 1940 and 2006 Other ways for primary prevention is to educate young people on smoking as part of personal social health education (PSHE) within schools. Another example is that the school nurse as a part of her role would educate the young people about sexual awareness and what the long and short term effects of having sex are, from sexually transmitted diseases, to the conceiving of a child and how to use different preventatives such as condoms and the pill. This is giving patients the knowledge and understanding in hope that they will act upon the advice that you have given them. Secondary prevention is about noticing and acting on a disease as early as ...

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