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Nadia Nisar
Assistant professor
Department of Community Medicine
NATURAL
HISTORY OF
DISEASE
OBJECTIVES
1- AGENT(cause of disease).
2-HOST(man).
3- ENVIRONMENT.
Agent
Host
Environment
2- Pathogenesis phase
This phase begins with entry of the disease agent in
the susceptible host (man) and it multiplies there
and causes disease.
THE FINAL TERMINATION OF DISEASE MAY
BE:
1-RECOVERY.
2-DISABILITY.
3-DEATH.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A DISEASE
STIMULUS to the
HOST REACTION RECOVERY
HOST
interrelation of
Agent, Host and Latent Period (Pre- Symptoms,
with or without Defects, Disability
Environmental symptomatic) Signs(Clinical)
factors
PREPATHOGEN
PERIOD OF PATHOGENESIS
ESIS
PRIMARY SECONDARY
TREATMENT TERTIARY PREVENTION
PREVENTION PREVENTION
Importance of studying
Natural history of disease