Community Health and Fitness No 5.2 - CCG - Priority No 2 Primary Prevention - Groups at Risk...?

"Primary Prevention" is the second priority suggested for the forthcoming (in 2013) Clinical Commissioning Groups - essentially doctors managing our local health service instead of  and in place of Primary Care Trusts which will go.

Strategically primary prevention should go hand in hand with Priority No1 Patient Self-management, ie with the discerning patient! So, what does "primary prevention" cover? In essence the issues are concerned with

•  a) life-style; and
• b) high risk groups.

The King's Fund Trust Report is less bulleted with this topic so I have used bullets to give emphasis on what I think I understand from the Report, namely :

• Life style which includes smoking of tobacco;
• Life-style which includes drinking of alcohol;
• Life-style which includes too little exercise;
• Life-style which includes too much food.

The groups at risk tend to be linked to one or more of the above: those who smoke, those who drink, those who are not physically fit, those who are obese, and unborn children. It seems that in a locality the latter group has some who are vulnerable because of the individual parent's life-style or condition.