Branch
Preventive Care
Also Known As Preventive medicine The clinical side of preventive medicine, individual screening and treatment decisions, stays with the Medicine Atlas; this branch carries the population practice, and sources use both names.
Prevention Field
The practice of acting before disease develops or before it progresses, organized around three tiers, primary prevention before a disease process begins, secondary prevention through early detection, and tertiary prevention that limits the impact of an established condition.
Facts
Central QuestionWhat action, taken before illness or its progression, does more for a population health than treatment taken after the fact. 1 Key DebateSourced to the subject's own accountEpidemiologist Geoffrey Rose argued that a population strategy, a small shift in risk spread across an entire population, often prevents more disease than a high-risk strategy that concentrates resources on the small number of individuals already at elevated risk, an idea he set out in a 1985 article and expanded in his 1992 book The Strategy of Preventive Medicine. His own seatbelt example, that hundreds of people must wear one to prevent a single traffic death while each individual gains only a modest personal benefit, still frames a live tension in preventive care over whether population-wide measures or targeted high-risk interventions deserve the next dollar of prevention funding. 2 Key DebateScreening programs face a recurring debate over overdiagnosis, whether detecting a condition that would never have caused harm does more damage through unnecessary treatment than it prevents. 3 Connections
Associated With
Source Wikipedia: Injury Prevention
Source Wikipedia: North Karelia ProjectWikipedia contributors
Includes
Breast cancer screening (SubLabel Screening Practice) is standardly delivered as a preventive-care early-detection service.
Source WHO: Cervical Cancer Fact Sheet
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Source MedlinePlus: Newborn Screening
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Voluntary counseling and testing (SubLabel Screening Practice) is a preventive-care screening and risk-counseling service.
Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
Sources
1. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Official Site
2. Wikipedia: Geoffrey Rose (Epidemiologist)
WikipediaPopulation strategy sectionQuote, Population strategy section
a large number of people at a small risk may give rise to more cases of disease than the small number who are at high risk
3. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Preventive medicine
Preventive medicine focuses on preventing disease and promoting health at the individual and community levels and is an important part of public health.
- Includes: Geoffrey Rose
View the Source MedlinePlus: Newborn Screening
National Library of MedicineIncludes: Newborn Screening, Summary, purposeView the Source WHO: Cervical Cancer Fact Sheet
World Health OrganizationIncludes: Cervical Cancer ScreeningView the Source Wikipedia: Injury Prevention
Wikipedia: North Karelia Project
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: North Karelia Project
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