Preventive healthcare or preventive medicine consists of measures taken that focus on disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment and is defined by Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the ...
Professionals involved in the public health aspect of this practice may be involved in entomology, pest control, and public health inspections. Public health inspections can include recreational water ...
Gordon (1987) in the area of disease prevention, and later Kumpfer and Baxley in the area of substance use proposed a three-tiered preventive intervention classification system: universal, selective, ...
Preventive healthcare strategies are typically described as taking place at the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention levels. In addition, the term primal prevention has been used to ...
Preventive healthcare or preventive care consists of measures taken to prevent diseases, (or injuries) rather than curing them or treating their symptoms. This contrasts in method with curative and pa ...
