Preventing and Treating Disease

Abstract

You have learned about the stages of disease and how a healthy person becomes sick. As health workers, your job is to prevent healthy people from becoming sick. If this is not possible, then the aims are: (1) to prevent sick people from developing chronic sickness and disability and (2) to prevent the disabled from further complications and death. In this unit you will learn what preventive methods can be used for each of the stages of disease.