Secondary prevention aims to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred. This is done by detecting and treating disease or injury as soon as possible to halt or slow its progress, encouraging personal strategies to prevent re injury or recurrence, and implementing programs to return people to their original health and function to prevent long-term problems.

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On a visit to the family health care provider, a client is diagnosed with a bunion on the lateral side of the great toe at the m

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"Some bunions are congenital; others are caused by wearing shoes that are too short or narrow."

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The New York State Health Department reported in 1997 that the death rate for AIDS in the state had fallen over the past year du

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The prevalence of HIV infections remained the same during the year of 1997