Practice question · True or false
Confusing secondary prevention (early screening) with primary prevention (stopping disease before it starts) would lead to different, non-interchangeable public health policies.
Hints
- Do screening programs and disease-prevention campaigns require the same infrastructure and goals?
- The levels act at different points, so mixing them up misdirects resources.
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True
Why
True. Screening programs and before-onset prevention act at different points in a disease's course and demand different strategies and resources, so confusing them produces materially different - and non-interchangeable - policies.
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