Epidemiology

A goal of the UC Department of Health (UCDOH) is to reduce the morbidity caused by the neurological disorder Susser Syndrome. A drug treatment has been found to be successful in alleviating the symptoms of Susser Syndrome in patients that already have clinical presentation and diagnosis of the disease. Now there is reason to believe that if the treatment is begun before clinical symptoms first appear, the treatment can prevent irreversible neurological damage and slow down the progression of the disease accompanied by the worsening of the neurological symptoms. In order to start treatment before the clinical symptoms of Susser Syndrome appear, it is necessary to implement a screening test. Before you can begin your study, you must write a proposal to secure funding for the project. In the proposal, you must describe how a screening program would fit into the prevention activities of the EDOH. A screening program for Susser Syndrome would fall under what type of prevention level? O fourth tertiary secondary O primary