Secondary prevention

 

Lifestyle measures

‘changes in lifestyle are as important in secondary prevention as they are in primary prevention. This requires changes in behaviour by the patient in areas such as smoking, exercise, diet and alcohol consumption. Although it is the responsibility of the person to change his or her own behaviour, the health system has the responsibility of giving accurate advice and information and providing support for patients to make and maintain lifestyle changes. Wider society also has some responsibility in enabling behaviour change and the charitable sector often provides support through the provision of information and organising peer support and groups’

(ISWP, 2012, p63)