Action taken to detect a disease early, often before symptoms appear, so it can be treated while still manageable: cancer screening and blood pressure checks are secondary prevention. It sits between primary prevention, which acts before disease begins, and tertiary prevention, which manages an established condition.
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First Described Year First Described EraSourced to the subject's own account1940s; coined within the levels of prevention framework developed by Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark, which secondary prevention extends to early detection and prompt treatment of disease already present but not yet symptomatic. 2 Concept Class Connections
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Source WHO: Cervical Cancer Fact Sheet
Screening asymptomatic populations for early disease is a textbook example of secondary prevention.
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
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Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
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1. Internet Archive: Textbook of Preventive Medicine (Leavell and Clark, 1953)
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First published in 1953 under title: Textbook of preventive medicine
2. Wikipedia: Disease Prevention
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In the 1940s, Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark coined the term primary prevention.
3. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
WHO: Cervical Cancer Fact Sheet
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