A medical doctor who specialises in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders.

Detailed instructions about how to complete a specific task. Describes how, when, where and who should be involved in the task. Protocols may refer to a culture, Men’s Business, Women’s Business and clinical care processes or the working relationship between people and/or agencies.

A gland around the neck of the bladder in men. It releases a fluid that makes up the semen.

The likely outcome of a person's disease.

Primary health care services involve continuity of care, health promotion and education, integration of prevention with illness and/or disease management, a concern for population as well as individual health, community involvement and the use of appropriate technology.

First level of health care, outside of hospitals. Primary Health Care (PHC) incorporates personal care with health promotion, the prevention of illness and community development. The philosophy of PHC includes the interconnecting principles of equity, access, empowerment, community self-determination and intersectoral collaboration. It encompasses an understanding of the social, economic, cultural and political determinants of health.

A sub-component of the broader primary health care system. Primary care is provided by a healthcare professional who is a client's first point of entry into the health system (for example: a general practitioner, practice nurse, community nurse, or community based allied health worker). Primary care is practised widely in nursing and allied health, but predominantly in general practice.

The original cancer. Cells from the primary cancer may break away and be carried to other parts of the body, where secondary cancers form. The initial location of a cancer in the body when it is first diagnosed.

Action to reduce or eliminate the onset, causes, complications or recurrence of disease or ill health.

The number or proportion (of cases, instances, etc.) present in a population at a given time.