A public health team plans an intervention in a rural district where obesity has not yet become common. They introduce school programmes promoting physical activity, traditional diets and restriction of sugary beverage sales, aiming to prevent the future EMERGENCE of overweight and its downstream cardiovascular risks in the whole population. This intervention represents which level of prevention?

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

Explanation

Primordial prevention prevents the emergence and establishment of risk factors themselves in a population where they have not yet appeared, through lifestyle and environmental policies starting in childhood. Primary prevention acts on an already established risk factor or exposure to prevent disease onset, secondary prevention detects early disease, and tertiary prevention limits disability. The key discriminator here is that obesity does not yet exist in this community.

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

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