Question

Lauren is an administrative assistant at a big law firm. While her days are busy answering phones, preparing documents on the computer, and scheduling appointments, it is mostly sedentary work. Lauren has poor eating habits and is overweight

Because of a family history of heart disease, Lauren's doctor suggested that she join a new weight loss support group at the hospital that teaches healthy lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise. This is an example of
A) primary prevention.
B) healthy start programs.
C) secondary prevention.
D) primary intervention.

Answer 1

Answer:C) secondary prevention.

Step-by-step explanation:

Secondary prevention

The purpose of this prevention is to alleviate the effect of diseases that has already affected an individual.

This means a person act fast to tackle that disease as early as possible in order to limit it progression and get involved into activities that can restore the initial health status. This is done to avoid severe impact in the future.

-The person start by doing check ups and screening test in the initial stages of being affected

- following a health diet

Lauren has already started eating unhealthy and she is now overweight which means she is affected already by various diseases or at risk of such diseases so she is past the primary prevention which includes not partaking in any unhealthy activities from day one .