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Social & Preventive Medicine Concept of health and disease 9e0a486d

Primary prevention among the following is

A
Marriage counseling
B
Amniocentesis
C
Pap smear
D
Self breast examination
High-Yield Explanation
Marriage counseling is a type of primary prevention. Primary prevention: Action taken prior to the onset of the disease which removes the possibility that a disease will ever occur. Amniocentesis, Pap smear, and self-breast examination are screening tests to detect disease in the early phase which comes under secondary prevention - Early diagnosis and treatment. Marriage counseling includes the health promotion for the prevention of specific causal factors which help to decrease the incidence of disease. Ref: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine; 24th edition - Page no.47, 865

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