Preventive treatment

Preventive treatment

Preventive treatment is a series of actions that are aimed at preventing against a disease or other unfavorable health phenomenon before it develops, by controlling causes and risk factors. The actions prevent against more serious consequences of a disease by early detection and treatment. The aim of preventive treatment is to take prompt and effective actions restoring health and to hinder development of a disease or complications. The actions undertaken within this protective layer include searching for methods of treatment that work in advance, protect the patient's health and minimize in the patient's environment all the causes that can deteriorate the patient's condition. Preventive treatment aims at preventing against occurrence and development of a phenomenon in a specific community. Preventive medicine systems require that necessary data be continuously collected and analyzed and conclusions be drawn in order to undertake advance actions. This layer comprises health protection problems and implements the model of treatment that should be followed by the state, namely "treatment ahead of the patient".

 

A multilayer structure of the health care system

A multilayer structure of the health care system is composed of nine protective layers of the society whose task is to limit the harmful impact of diseases and to change the present model of treatment. It combines the areas of reparative medicine and preventive medicine.