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1. Preventive medicine guidelines for the geriatric population: to promote and maintain the health of elders, it is critical that physicians adopt preventive medicine practices. This review of published geriatric health-maintenance research provides comprehensive guidelines for healthcare providers.

Author

Dockter, Lisa and Simpson, David A.

Subjects
Medicine, Preventive -- Practice -- Health aspects, Aged -- Health aspects, Health care industry -- Management -- Standards, Health planning -- Health aspects, Preventive health services -- Practice -- Health aspects, Geriatrics -- Practice -- Health aspects, United States. Preventive Services Task Force -- Standards -- Management, Health care industry, Company business management
Abstract

Changing attitudes about health maintenance and advances in screening tests have made preventive medicine the foundation of healthcare. It is now widely known that changing lifestyle behaviors reduces risk factors [...]

Published
2002

2. Respiratory syncytial virus infection and the primary care physician

Author

Park, Jay W. and Barnett, David W.

Subjects
Medicine, Preventive -- Practice -- Health aspects, Children -- Diseases -- Health aspects, Respiratory syncytial virus infection -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Infection in children -- Care and treatment -- Diagnosis, Infection -- Care and treatment -- Diagnosis, Preventive health services -- Practice -- Health aspects, Health, Practice, Diagnosis, Care and treatment, Health aspects
Abstract

ABSTRACT: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a common viral illness affecting almost all children within their first few years of life. In most young children, RSV results in a [...]

Published
2002

3. Warning: doctors can damage your wealth

Subjects
Medicine, Preventive -- Practice -- Health aspects, Medical care, Cost of -- International aspects -- Health aspects, Industrial nations -- Health aspects, Preventive health services -- Practice -- Health aspects, Business, Economics, Business, international, Practice, International aspects, Health aspects
Abstract

The costly wonders of modem medicine have not had much effect on life expectancy or the incidence of sickness. Should the billions that rich countries spend on high-technology doctoring be [...]

Published
1990

4. Folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects: a population strategy is needed

Author

Wald, Nicholas J. and Bower, Carol

Subjects
Medicine, Preventive -- Practice -- Health aspects, Folic acid -- Health aspects -- Standards, Neural tube -- Abnormalities, Preventive health services -- Practice -- Health aspects, Public health -- Standards -- Health aspects, Enriched foods -- Health aspects -- Standards, Health, Practice, Standards, Abnormalities, Health aspects
Abstract

A population strategy is needed Over three years have passed since an increase in the intake of folic acid among women planning a pregnancy was shown to prevent most neural [...]

Published
1995

5. Fifty percent of cancer preventable

Subjects
Medicine, Preventive -- Practice -- Health aspects, Life style -- Health aspects, Cancer -- Prevention, Preventive health services -- Practice -- Health aspects, Health, Practice, Prevention, Health aspects
Abstract

In a comprehensive review of all the available cancer research in humans, the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Boston, Massachusetts, has issued a report concluding that lifestyle changes could end [...]

Published
1996

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