Smoking Primary Prevention

The National Prevention Strategy aim is to increase the number of Americans to live healthy in every stage of their life (CDC, 2014). It provides leadership at the federal level that emphasize on prevention, wellness, and health promotion and its landmark represented in a vision, goals, strategic direction, priorities, recommendation, and act. The National preventive strategy supports the Affordable Care Act, as both of them emphasize on the importance of prevention for all Americans.

Secondary prevention focuses early detection and screenings. Routine tests are meant to catch diseases even while the patient is still unaware of the condition. Patients that are already experiencing symptoms benefit from tertiary

Primary - focuses on health promotion and protection against specific health problems or health risks. Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to generally healthy individuals or groups. Examples include: Immunizations; risk assessments for specific disease i.e. diabetes; health education about injury and poisoning prevention.

This essay is aimed to explore, analyse and discuss smoking in adults. Smoking is a public health issue as such is one of the major contributors to high mortality and ill-health in the adults which is preventable (Health and Excellence Care (NICE) (2012). The United Kingdom (UK) is known to have the highest number of people with a history of smoking among people with low socio-economic status (Scriven and Garman, 2006; Goddard and Green, 2005). Smoking is considered a serious epidemic in the UK and the National institute for Health and Excellence Care (NICE, 2012) stated that 28% of adults with low economic status are tobacco smokers compared with 13% of those with economic status or having professional

I agree that smoking is detrimental the human body in many aspects, and I cannot support that smoking is not harmful in any aspect. Health care professionals have the responsibility of informing patients that certain behaviors will interfere or worsen their medical condition. I do not agree that patients should be released from care, because of the choices that they live by. Everyone is entitled to health care, if they seek it. I came across an article, How Can We Balance Ethics and Law When Treating Smokers, that reiterated the fact that it is unethical to release patients or withhold treatment, because of the choice to smoke. In her article Senderovich (2016) wrote, “what many do not realize is that physicians are legally not allowed

Prevention touches not only the patient but also the healthcare system by and through less utilization. Maintaining and improving health is important to an individual for longevity of life and reduces healthcare costs for the both the individual and their system.

of people to cut out any possible ways of developing a disease. Secondary health promotion: Secondary level of health prevention aims at targeted sections of the population that have a greater risk for a certain illness and if an illness is established secondary health prevention aims to reduce the likeliness of the illness to develop further on. Tertiary health promotion: Tertiary level of health prevention targets individuals who are already affected by the disease or chronic illness, therefore tertiary health promotion aims to prevent the reoccurrence of the illness through effective rehabilitation to stop further development of the illness. Great example of primary health promotion is HPV vaccination as it prevents individuals from ever being able to receive the disease, while for secondary prevention breast screening to target specific individuals whom have a higher risk of getting breast cancer, breast screening is a preventative step to help individuals to make sure they are living the healthiest life possible, while a for tertiary prevention would be hypothermia medication for high blood pressure or diabex for diabetes as these mediations help to stabilise the disease from further deteriorating an individual’s health. The Preventative medial approach is quite an effective and successful strategy as it targets specific needs for different groups of individual to cater to their needs to make sure they get the specific medical attention to either stabilise and prevent further

The secondary prevention. It is to prevent ill-health getting worse, like helping smokers to give up, advising over weight to diet and ensure their conditions does not deteriorate.

Secondary prevention is detecting a disease before symptoms appear and intervening to stop or slow its advancement. When primary prevention fails, secondary prevention is utilized. Focus is placed on screening tests or procedures to detect serious diseases as soon as possible. Some examples include a Pap test for cervical cancer, a PSA test for prostate cancer, and glucose test for diabetes. Screening tests differentiate healthy people from people who probably have the disease.

The secondary prevention is aims to reduce the effect of illness or injury that has already occurred. The best way is when symptoms appear should early detection because itis reduces risk and increased treatment chance, such as mammograms to detect breast cancer. In addition, people who are most susceptible to disease should vaccinated to increase immunization, for example health care workers who work with patients at risk of TB

The individual I interviewed between 59-35 years told me that the achievement of marking tobacco as a health hazard has played an important role in her life. When she was younger smoking was a more common activity and helped her with stress she accumulated throughout the day. Everything changed when her child started school. As the child became more aware of drug use and smoking through the education program called D.A.R.E, he would try to convince his mom to stop smoking. This allowed her to realize

Finally, the last prevention way is reducing the risk factor from getting the chronic disease. (Dr. Duke Johnson’s, 2009) For example smoking and alcohol can increase the risk factor to get the diseases. As we know, each cigarette contains about 200 chemical compounds that can damages our heart and blood vessels plus the smoke is not only attack the smoker but also people around him. So, we should strictly avoid smoking because it

Tobacco smoking is one of the largest causes of preventable illness and death in Australia. Research estimates that two in three lifetime smokers will die from a disease caused by their smoking. The most recent estimate of deaths caused by tobacco in Australia is for the financial year 2009–10. Tobacco use caused a total of 14,901 deaths in that year (QuitSmokingSupport.com,2016). There are many ways through which one could quit Tobacco smoking like using Medicines or E-cigarettes. But in recent studies it was found out that teenagers who use e-cigarettes are three times more likely to smoke normal cigarettes than those who don’t amplifies. The problem for most smokers, particularly those who have previously tried to stop, is that they know that abruptly stopping is going to be a painful and difficult experience, demanding significant willpower and toughness (QuitSmokingSupport.com,2016). The best solution for stopping the Tobacco smoking is to use the disposable cigarette tar filters to stop Tobacco smoking. Disposable cigarette tar filters stop tar going to body while one is smoking cigarette. Tar filter is made up of organic chemicals including some carcinogens.

The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of the human race. They kill about 6 million people every year and in the 1900’s about 100 million people were killed by cigarettes. Even if consumption rates dropped slowly to zero by 2100, there will still be about 300 million deaths in this century. Not only should cigarettes be outlawed, but all tobacco in general. Tobacco should be outlawed because it affects people’s appearance, does self harm, is a complete waste of money and hurts people around the user.

Tobacco has been a huge part of economic success in many countries for over a century now. Tobacco use has greatly increased since its discovery in the late 1400's by the European settlers in the new world otherwise known as the United States. Tobacco companies are very aware of the health risks of cigarettes, but continue to sell them for the high amount of revenue they make off of them. Cigarettes kill millions of people around the world each year and the death toll gradually increases over time. According to an article by the World of Invention, "tobacco-related disease kills someone every six seconds which brings the global annual death toll to approximately 6 million deaths per year. Growing tobacco use in the developing world will raise that death toll to 8 million per year by the year 2030" ("Tobacco Products"). Smoking cigarettes not only affects the ones who are smoking the cigarettes, but it affects those around them as well. This second hand smoke is just as deadly as first hand smoking. Tobacco companies should be held directly responsible for smoking related deaths and illnesses because they knowingly manufacture a product that has been proven harmful to others.