Seyed Mansour Razavi
West Indies
Research Article
A Preventive Approach to Elderly People Health Problems
Author(s): Seyed Mansour Razavi, Mahdiyeh Sadat Razavi2and Mohsen Pirhosseinlou
Seyed Mansour Razavi, Mahdiyeh Sadat Razavi2and Mohsen Pirhosseinlou
Background: To deal with health problems, there is a practical approach, based on “prevention” perspective. This approach, consist of 5 different types of prevention including primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention levels. It seems that, using this approach is a proper way to manage the elderly health problems.
Aim: In this study, we are going to introduce an action plan based on “prevention levels” for dealing with elderly problems.
Methods: To obtain information associated to prevention of elderly problems, we have carried out a two stages qualitative study using 26 projects from 52 medical interns (first step) and documentation of them (second step) with reliable scientific resources.
Results: For prevention of elderly problems, a com.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-7182.1000450