Examples of preventive medicine in the following topics:
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- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- Simple examples of preventive medicine include hand washing, breastfeeding, and immunizations.
- Since preventive medicine deals with healthy individuals or populations, the costs and potential harms from interventions need even more careful examination than in treatment.
- Explain the purpose of preventive medicine and how insurance companies can influence the types of preventive medicine chosen
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- Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine".
- Alternative medicine methods are diverse in their foundations and methodologies.
- Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
- Integrative medicine is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative/complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
- It may include preventive medicine and patient-centered medicine.
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- Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations; it serves as the foundation and logic for interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.
- Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness.
- According to evolutionary medicine, much illness is not directly caused by an infection or body dysfunction, but is instead a response created by the body.
- Evolutionary medicine calls this set of responses "sickness behavior. "
- However, the rise of scientific medicine in the past two centuries has altered or replaced many historic health practices.
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- Modern medicine approaches health care from two angles.
- This second method typically focuses on preventative care.
- Modern, scientific medicine has proven uniquely effective at treating and preventing disease.
- It is increasingly widespread and more widely accepted than other forms of medicine.
- Modern medicine is notably secular, and indifferent to ideas of the supernatural or the spiritual.
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- Prevention and control of microbial-resistant organisms is one of the most complex management issues that health care professionals face.
- To prevent antimicrobial resistance, the patient and the healthcare provider should discuss the appropriate medicine for the illness .
- Patients should follow prescription directions and should not share or take medicine that was prescribed for someone else; these virtues should be strictly practiced.
- Healthy lifestyle habits, including proper diet, exercise, and sleeping patterns, as well as good hygiene such as frequent hand washing, can help prevent illness.
- These practices, therefore, also help prevent the overuse or misuse of antibiotics and the emergence of problematic resistant strains.
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- Health psychology, often referred to as behavioral medicine or medical psychology, is the application of psychological theory to health-related practices.
- Behavioral health focuses on prevention of health problems and illnesses, while behavioral medicine focuses on treatment.
- Their research often focuses on prevention and intervention programs designed to promote healthier lifestyles (e.g., exercise and nutrition programs).
- Because it focuses on the prevention and treatment of health problems, clinical health psychology is a specialty practice area for clinical psychologists.
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- Herbal medicine is an aspect of folk medicine that involves the use of gathered plant parts to make teas, poultices, or powders that purportedly effect cures.
- Western medicine approaches health care from two angles.
- Western, scientific medicine has proven uniquely effective at treating and preventing some diseases while wholly inadequate in treating others (note that the amount of diseases that it has been demonstrated to treat effectively outnumbers the other side to date).
- The term alternative medicine is misleading, as these treatments have not been proven to be an effective alternative to regulated conventional medicine, but alternative medicine proponents point out that the same can be said (not proven, though often demonstrated to be probable) of Western Medicine.
- People who choose alternative or western medicines may think they are choosing a safe, effective medicine, while they may only be getting quack remedies.
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- Scientists are using what is known about the regulation of gene expression in disease states, including cancer, to develop new ways to treat and prevent disease development.
- This idea, that therapy and medicines can be tailored to an individual, has given rise to the field of personalized medicine.
- With an increased understanding of gene regulation and gene function, medicines can be designed to specifically target diseased cells without harming healthy cells.
- Some new medicines, called targeted therapies, have exploited the overexpression of a specific protein or the mutation of a gene to develop a new medication to treat disease.
- Scientists are using knowledge of the regulation of gene expression in individual cancers to develop new ways to treat target diseased cells and prevent the disease from occurring.
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- Parasitic worms, often the result of horrible illness and disease, appear to have medicinal properties as well.
- The most common use of parasitic worms for medicinal purposes is in the use against diseases characterized by an overactive immune response.
- In return, the damping down of the immune system is believed to be beneficial, as this may prevent the development of allergies.
- An additional study links an increase in metabolic syndrome in the Western world and the success in preventing and eliminating parasites.
- The study demonstrates that immune system cells, eosinophils, that are present in fat tissue play a role in the prevention of insulin resistance via secretion of interleukin 4.
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- Organ transplantation has both revolutionized medicine and led to technically, legally, and morally complicated situations.
- The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs re-grown from the patient's own cells using stem cells or cells extracted from the failing organs.
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which sets strict regulations on the safety of transplants, primarily aimed at preventing the spread of communicable disease.