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  2. Preventive healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases. [1] 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.

  3. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

  4. Preventive Health: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

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    Preventive care for adults involves screening for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, as well as immunizations against serious illnesses like the flu and COVID-19. It also involves ...

  5. King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .kipmr .org .in. King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research is a medicine research institute located in Guindy, Chennai, India. It was established on 7 November 1899 with the aim of protecting against scourging infections and was named after Lt. Col. W. G. King, the then Sanitary Commissioner of the Madras Presidency. [1]

  6. Department of Health and Family Welfare (Tamil Nadu)

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    Gagandeep Singh Bedi, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary. Parent agency. Government of Tamil Nadu. Website. tnhealth .tn .gov .in. The Department of Health and Family Welfare is one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu and is responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services in the state.

  7. What is Covered by Preventative Healthcare Insurance?

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    Preventive health insurance is exactly what it sounds like: a plan that covers care received in order to prevent the onset of illness. Historically, most plans have covered preventive care at ...

  8. What Is the Difference Between Wellness and Preventive Care?

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    Gina. Oh, Yeah I do definitely what the difference between those two are. Barry Nolan. Oh, well, explain! Gina. Preventive care is things like getting your yearly check ups, your vaccinations ...

  9. Some possible causes include: infections, including the flu and pneumonia. some immunizations, such as diphtheria or tetanus (in children) teething (in infants) some inflammatory diseases ...