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2. What Is Preventive Health 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 ...

3. Common Respiratory Diseases: Causes and Prevention - Healthline

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   Risk factors. Prevention. Bottom line. There are many types of respiratory diseases, such as COPD, asthma, and obstructive sleep apnea. Smoking and exposure to certain substances are common risk ...

4. Airborne Diseases: Types, Prevention, and More - Healthline

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   Further treatment depends on your specific illness. Some airborne diseases, such as chickenpox, have no targeted treatment. However, medications and other supportive care can help relieve symptoms.

5. Preventive healthcare - Wikipedia

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   Immunization against diseases is a key preventive healthcare measure. 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 ...

6. What Are Airborne Diseases? - WebMD

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   Cough or sneeze into a handkerchief or into your elbow. Wash your hands frequently. Regularly clean common surfaces, like doorknobs, counters, handles, and more.‌. Additionally, make sure indoor ...

7. How Coronavirus Is Transmitted: Here Are All the Ways It Can ...

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   This is the most common transmission. When an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks, droplets or tiny particles called aerosols carry the virus into the air from their nose or mouth. Anyone ...

8. Pandemics: Definition, Prevention, and Preparation - WebMD

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   Hyperendemic means an illness is constant but people are getting sick at a higher rate. Cases can also come in a cluster , a group of illnesses in a certain place and time. Notable Past Pandemics

9. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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   Infection prevention and control. Infection prevention and control is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe, infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health, known as "infection ...