The nurse providing primary preventive care at a community health care center focuses on which type of activity?

The nurse providing primary preventive care at a community health care center focuses on which type of activity?

• A. Treating illness in individuals with disease
• B. Promoting health in healthy individuals
• C. Providing palliative care
• D. Rehabilitation after injury

Answer: (B)

Primary prevention aims to prevent disease before it starts by promoting health and reducing risk in people who are well. In a community health center, this means activities that keep people healthy, such as vaccination campaigns, health education, and counseling on healthy lifestyles to prevent illness. The other activities describe care after problems have begun: treating illness in those who are sick, providing palliative care to relieve suffering, and rehabilitating after injury to restore function. These are focused on managing disease, comfort, or recovery rather than preventing problems in healthy individuals. So promoting health in healthy individuals is the primary preventive activity.

Primary prevention aims to prevent disease before it starts by promoting health and reducing risk in people who are well. In a community health center, this means activities that keep people healthy, such as vaccination campaigns, health education, and counseling on healthy lifestyles to prevent illness. The other activities describe care after problems have begun: treating illness in those who are sick, providing palliative care to relieve suffering, and rehabilitating after injury to restore function. These are focused on managing disease, comfort, or recovery rather than preventing problems in healthy individuals. So promoting health in healthy individuals is the primary preventive activity.