World Physiotherapy advocates that infection
Prevention: Activities that are directed toward achieving and restoring optimal functioning, minimising impairments, limitations, and participation restrictions, maintaining health (thereby preventing further deterioration or future illness), creating appropriate environmental adaptations to enhance independent function.
- Primary prevention – actions to avoid or remove the cause of a health problem in an individual or a population before it arises.
- Secondary prevention – actions to detect a health problem at an early stage in an individual or a population, facilitating cure, or reducing or preventing spread, or reducing or preventing its long-term effects.
- Tertiary prevention – actions to reduce the impact of an already established disease by restoring function and reducing disease-related complications.
