This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Levels of Prevention of Disease, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
'Monitoring of BP' is an example for:- 
Select and explain. 
A. Primordial Prevention, B. Primary Prevention, C. Secondary Prevention, D. Teiary Prevention
C: Secondary Prevention
Answer: C: Secondary Prevention 
Explanation: - Secondary Level of Prevention is applied when disease has possibly set in. - So, monitoring of BP after hypeension has already set in accounts to secondary level of prevention. Levels of prevention Level Aim Modes Primordial prevention Prevention of emergence of development of risk factors Health education Primary prevention Action taken prior to the onset of disease Health promotion specific protection Secondary prevention Action which halts the progress of a disease Early diagnosis and treatment, screening programmes Teiary prevention Measures to reduce impairments and disabilities Disability limitation , rehabilitation