Preventive Health Services

Project Officer: Vijay Ramanathan
Phone: 8752 4915

Preventive Health includes a wide range of programs and projects that have a common goal of reducing the risk of ill-health and disability in an identified population.

Preventive interventions include primary prevention (seeking to prevent or delay disease in healthy persons), secondary prevention (seeking early detection of disease), and tertiary prevention (seeking to reduce disability caused by existing disease, including chronic disease management strategies).

These may include both clinical services (such as immunisations and cancer screenings) and behavioral/lifestyle interventions (such as those aimed at smoking cessation, falls prevention, and increased physical activity).

Health assessments are used to assess the over health of a patient taking into consideration their social, physical, physiological health, family history and environmental risk factors. They are useful tools to establish a baseline for the patient to consider, monitor or focus on self management to maintain or address their potential future health predicament.To know more about different health assessments please visit CSGPN: Health checks and assessments