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    Rehabilitation involves using medical, social, educational, and vocational measures to train and retrain an individual to their highest possible level of functional ability. It includes medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, and psychological rehabilitation working together in a coordinated way.

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    Rehabilitation involves using medical, social, educational, and vocational measures to train and retrain an individual to their highest possible level of functional ability. It includes medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, and psychological rehabilitation working together in a coordinated way.

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    Rehabilitation involves using medical, social, educational, and vocational measures to train and retrain an individual to their highest possible level of functional ability. It includes medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, and psychological rehabilitation working together in a coordinated way.

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    Rehabilitation

    Rehabilitation is “ the combined and


    coordinated use of medical, social,
    educational, and vocational measures
    for training and retraining the
    individual to the highest possible
    level of functional ability.”
    Rehabilitation

    Medical Vocational Social Psychological


    rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation
    Strategy for Prevention
    Identify
    Populations

    As
    Modify Existing at High

    s es s
    Disease Risk
    Intervention (based on demography /
    family history,
    Programs

    ment
    host factors..)
    ion
    I nter vent

    Assess
    Evaluate Exposure
    Intervention
    Programs

    Conduct
    Research on
    Apply Mechanisms
    (including the study of
    Population-Based genetic susceptibility)
    Intervention
    Programs
    (II) Control
    Control
    Concept of control:
    The term disease control describes ongoing
    operations aimed at reducing:
    The incidence of disease
    The duration of disease and consequently the
    risk of transmission
    The effects of infection, including both the
    physical and psychosocial complications
    The financial burden to the community.
    Control activities focus on primary
    prevention or secondary prevention,
    but most programs combine both.
    control

    elimination

    eradication
    Disease Elimination

    Between control and eradication, an


    intermediate goal has been described,
    called "regional elimination"
    The term "elimination" is used to describe
    interruption of transmission of disease, as
    for example, elimination of measles, polio
    and diphtheria from large geographic
    regions or areas
    Regional elimination is now seen as an
    important precursor of eradication
    Disease Eradication
    Eradication literally means to "tear out by roots".

    It is the process of “Termination of all


    transmission of infection by extermination of the
    infectious agent through surveillance and
    containment”.

    Eradication is an absolute process, an "all or none"


    phenomenon, restricted to termination of an
    infection from the whole world. It implies that
    disease will no longer occur in a population.

    To-date, only one disease has been eradicated,


    that is smallpox.
    Surveillance
    surveillance means to watch over with
    great attention, authority and often with
    suspicion

    According to another, surveillance is


    defined as "the continuous scrutiny
    (inspection) of the factors that determine
    the occurrence and distribution of disease
    and other conditions of ill-health"
    Objectives of Surveillance
    The main objectives of surveillance are:

    (a) to provide information about new and changing


    trends in the health status of a population, e.g., morbidity,
    mortality, nutritional status or other indicators and
    environmental hazards, health practices and other
    factors that may affect health

    (b) to provide feed-back which may be expected to


    modify the policy and the system itself and lead to
    redefinition of objectives, and

    (c) provide timely warning of public health disasters so


    that interventions can be mobilized.
    Control of infectious diseases (the
    4 “C”s

    Control

    Cases Contacts Carriers Community

    Diagnosis
    notification standard
    strict Epidemiological
    isolation observation detection
    protective Investigation &
    disinfection containment
    treatment
    follow up
    release
    To summarize
    The goals of medicine are to promote health, to preserve
    health, to restore health when it is impaired, and to minimize
    suffering and distress.

    These goals are embodied in the word "prevention"

    Successful prevention depends upon a knowledge of


    causation, dynamics of transmission, identification of risk
    factors and risk groups, availability of prophylactic or early
    detection and treatment measures, an organization for
    applying these measures to appropriate persons or groups,
    and continuous evaluation of and development of
    procedures applied

    The objective of preventive medicine is to intercept or


    oppose the "cause" and thereby the disease process. This
    epidemiological concept permits the inclusion of treatment
    as one of the modes of intervention

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