A state introduces mandatory front-of-pack labelling limits on trans fats and integrates daily physical activity into the primary school curriculum, aiming to stop cardiovascular risk factors from ever emerging in the next generation. This intervention is an example of:

• A Health protection under secondary prevention
• B Disability limitation
• C Specific protection under tertiary prevention
• D Primordial prevention ✓

Explanation

Primordial prevention acts before risk factors appear in the population, targeting lifestyles and social conditions through policies on nutrition, physical activity and smoking. Primary prevention operates once risk factors exist, through health promotion and specific protection. Disability limitation belongs to secondary and tertiary prevention and presupposes established disease, which is not the case here.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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