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preventive medicine
Sign in to saveAlso known as preventative healthcare, preventative medicine, health prevention, health care, clinical preventive medicine, preventive healthcare, preventative health care
measures taken for disease prevention, with anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary prevention
Key facts
- Names
- Physician
- Occupation type
- Specialty
- Activity sectors
- Medicine
- Education required
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
- Fields of employment
- Hospitals , clinics , Occupational Health clinics
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
547,682 papers- Do preventive medicine physicians practice medicine?Preventive medicine · 2018
- Preventive medicine's equivalence problem.Preventive medicine · 2020
- Preventive medicine.Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London · 1992
- The Application of Preventive Medicine in the Future Digital Health Era.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025
- Preventive medicine for genetic disorders.American journal of medical genetics · 1999
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- medicine
- Part of
- public health
- Field of work
- public health
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- topic's main category
- Category:Preventive medicine
- Commons category
- Preventive medicine
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject COVID-19
- ICPC 2 ID
- A98
- P8168
- Diaz
- different from
- health care
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/prevention
- has goal
- prevention
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Encyclopedic overview
Immunization against diseases is a key preventive healthcare measure.
Preventive healthcare or prophylaxis is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases. Disease and disability are affected by environmental factors, genetic predisposition, disease agents, and lifestyle choices, and are dynamic processes that begin before individuals realize they are affected. Disease prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Preventative care can include services such as, screening tests to check for diseases, services like vaccines, dental cleanings, and education and counseling to help one make informed health related decisions.
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