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which disease prevention level would the nurse use when providing care to an ethnically marginalized family without consistent access to health care, where one of the children has diabetes mellitus? health promotion primary prevention secondary prevention tertiary prevention
Since the child already has diabetes mellitus, the focus is on preventing complications and managing the existing condition. Tertiary prevention aims to reduce the impact of a disease that is already established, by preventing complications and disabilities. Health promotion and primary prevention are for preventing the onset of disease, and secondary prevention is for early - detection. Here, with an existing condition, tertiary prevention is appropriate.
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Tertiary prevention