The vulnerable and the susceptible: The weight of

摘要

Healthy people who practice primary prevention of diseases in different economic, social, environmental contexts have different chance of health due to different determinants of health [1]. Primary prevention focuses on individual risk factors (behavioral risk factors like eg, smoking, consuming alcohol, inappropriate use of hazardous products; genetics) and proactivity in non-clinical life choices like the health pyramid (diet, physical exercise, meditation). The ethiology of diseases focuses on both primordial and primary prevention. Primary prevention aims at managing specific risk factors and improving protective factors to reduce the incidence of diseases; while primordial (or primal) prevention aims at establishing and maintaining conditions that prevents such risk factors.