A state health department launches a programme promoting daily physical activity and traditional low-salt diets among school children, aiming to stop these behaviours from taking root before hypertension ever appears in the population. This intervention is an example of:
- A Specific protection
- B Primary prevention
- C Primordial prevention ✓
- D Secondary prevention
Correct answer: C. Primordial prevention
Explanation
Primordial prevention prevents the emergence and establishment of risk factors themselves in a population, operating before the risk factor exists. Primary prevention acts after risk factors have appeared, through health promotion plus specific protection against an identified hazard. Since the children have not yet developed sedentary habits, salt excess or elevated blood pressure, the activity described is primordial. Secondary prevention means early diagnosis and treatment of established preclinical disease.
Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.
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