In public health school, students learn that there are three levels of preventive medicine.
1. Primary Prevention - pill to lower high cholesterol
2. Secondary - asprin perscribed after heart attack to prevent another
3. Third level - cardiac rehabilitation program to prevent further deterioration
Proposed
4. Reduce complications of 1-3
5. Primordial Prevention - preventing the development of chronic disease i.e. preventing the onset of high cholesterol in the first place
