Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Levels of Prevention
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Model Population-based Prevention Program

NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health

Module 4: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention

Overview

The purpose of this module is to examine principles of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, to introduce clinical practice guidelines, and to showcase a community based health promotion program that emphasizes primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:

• Differentiate primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
• Identify characteristics of good screening tests
• Explain clinical practice guidelines
• Describe a model population-based primary, secondary and tertiary prevention program

You may be required to use your UMSON log in to search and access these articles via the Health Science and Human Services Library (www.hshsl.umaryland.edu).

Required Readings

• Butterfield, Patricia G. (1990). Thinking upstream: Nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health behavior. Advances in Nursing Science, 12(2), 1-8.

(This article is a seminal work in the field written when Patricia Butterfield was in her doctoral program. She was the Dean at Washington State School of Nursing and is now the Associate Dean for Research at Washington State Elson S. Floyd School of Medicine. Advances in Nursing Science recently asked that she write a retrospective analysis of this article)

• Butterfield Patricia G. (2017). Thinking upstream: A 25-year retrospective and conceptual model aimed at reducing health inequities. Advances in Nursing Science, 40(1), 2-11.

Recommended Reading

• Butterfield, P. B. (2002). Upstream reflections on environmental health: An abbreviated history and framework for action. Advances in Nursing Science, 25(1), 32-49
• Puska, Pekka (2009)Fat and heart disease:  Yes we can make a change—The case of North Karelia (Finland). Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, 54 (suppl 1)33-38.
  Available at http://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/220825

Directions

Read the module content and activities.  Then complete the assignment for the module.