Leavell and clark prevention levels

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Introduction

• A model is a theoretical way of understanding a concept or idea.
• Models represent different ways of approaching complex issues.

• There are different models of health.

Clinical model

• The absence of signs and symptoms of disease indicates health.
• Illness would be the presence of conspicuous signs and symptoms of disease.
• People who use this model of health to guide their use of healthcare services may not seek preventive health services , or they may wait until they are very ill to seek care.
• Clinical model is the conventional model of the discipline of medicine.

Role performance model

• Health is indicated by the ability to perform social roles.
• Role performance includes work, family and social roles, with performance based on societal expectations.
• Illness would be the future to perform a person’s roles at the level of others in soc Leavell and Clark - Leavell and Clark’s Three Levels of ...

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