Campaign
Campaign (medicine)
Campaign (pronounced: /kæmˈpeɪn/) is a term often used in the field of medicine to refer to a series of actions aimed at achieving a particular goal related to health improvement or disease prevention.
Etymology
The term 'campaign' originates from the Latin word 'campania', which refers to the level open country suitable for military maneuvers. In the context of medicine, it refers to a strategic plan or series of operations aimed at achieving a particular health goal.
Definition
In medicine, a campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change in the area of health. These activities may include public awareness efforts, vaccination drives, or disease screening programs.
Related Terms
- Public Health Campaign: A public health campaign is a widespread, organized effort to promote health or prevent disease in a population. Examples include anti-smoking campaigns or vaccination drives.
- Health Promotion: Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
- Disease Prevention: Disease prevention covers measures not only to prevent the occurrence of disease, such as risk factor reduction, but also to arrest its progress and reduce its consequences once established.
- Vaccination Drive: A vaccination drive is a coordinated effort to vaccinate a large number of people in a given area against a specific disease, often as part of a public health campaign.
- Screening Program: A screening program is a public health service where members of a certain population are tested to identify symptoms of a particular disease or condition.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Campaign
- Wikipedia's article - Campaign
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