Prevention is a way to avoid an injury, sickness, or disease, and generally it fails to help anyone who is already affected by the illness. Prevention takes place on three levels; they are primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels. Knowledge of prevention helps in reducing the burden of mortality or morbidity from that particular disease. Like in case you do have an adequate knowledge regarding heart attack prevention or diabetes prevention then the chances of mortality or morbidity from heart attack or diabetes can be averted. Similarly by knowing a few guidelines of stroke prevention, a life threatening disease like stroke can be avoided.
The incidence of suicide, which is on the uphill, can be reduced through proactive suicide prevention measures. The collective efforts of mental health practitioners and related professionals can help in prevention of suicide. Various suicide prevention strategies have been successfully used.
For all you who anticipate the snoring habit of their partners, there is some good news for you as there are certain steps for the prevention of snoring too. As the adage states that, prevention is better than cure. Hence, if these steps of snoring prevention are practiced meticulously then snoring can be prevented and all of you can have a peaceful and happy sleep.
Hence, it is an observed fact that by obtaining adequate knowledge of preventive measures and by adapting them and incorporating them in our daily life, several life threatening diseases can be prevented and a large amount of complications can be averted. Prevention works!
Dr Varsha Sharma, MD(Hom), Consultant Homoeopath, drvarshas@gmail.com
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