Question

The case manager makes a home visit to the client's household and finds that the client has become psychotic in the prior 3 days and has bolted himself in the his room. The case manager works to encourage the client to come out and calls the ambulance to take the client to the emergency department. At what level of prevention is the case manager working?

Answer 1

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This is secondary level of prevention.The aim is to provide timely intervention, so that full manifestation of a disease condition is prevented.

its involves early detection of a disease onset, analysis  of the probable  risks that may be  involved, and arrangement of  clinical  intervention to  arrest the manifestation of the diseases and its symptoms ; it is like  subduing the progression of a disease that is without symptoms(asymptomatic)  so that the deceases  will not  produce symptoms   become(symptomatic)

This procedure involve some clinical assessments- test for glucose, the blood pressure of the subject, the levels of blood cholesterol , the bone density etc. to enable the health practitioner to make early intervention.

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