A state health department launches a school-based programme promoting daily physical activity, restriction of sugary beverages and tobacco-free campuses, with the explicit aim of preventing the future emergence of obesity and insulin resistance in children. This intervention represents which level of prevention?

• A Primary prevention
• B Primordial prevention ✓
• C Secondary prevention
• D Tertiary prevention

Explanation

Primordial prevention prevents the emergence and establishment of risk factors themselves in a population, acting before risk factors exist. Primary prevention acts on an existing risk factor to prevent disease onset, secondary prevention detects and treats early disease through screening, and tertiary prevention limits disability from established disease. Since these children have not yet developed obesity or insulin resistance, the intervention is primordial.

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

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