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  2. What Is a Preventive Medicine Physician? - WebMD

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    3 min read. A preventive medicine physician is a doctor who has experience in public health as well as clinical care. This allows them to provide insight and expertise in the prevention of injury ...

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

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    Preventive health refers to routine care you receive in order to maintain your health. It’s key to diagnosing medical conditions before they become a problem. Preventing serious diseases before ...

  4. Preventive healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Preventive healthcare strategies are described as taking place at the primal, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels. Although advocated as preventive medicine in the early twentieth century by Sara Josephine Baker, in the 1940s, Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark coined the term primary prevention. They worked at the Harvard and ...

  5. Preventive and social medicine - Wikipedia

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    Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative diseases. Studies in preventive healthcare and social medicine are helpful in providing guided care, medicine in environmental health, offering scholarly services, formulating legal ...

  6. Predictive medicine - Wikipedia

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    Predictive medicine is intended for both healthy individuals ("predictive health") and for those with diseases ("predictive medicine"), its purpose being to predict susceptibility to a particular disease and to predict progression and treatment response for a given disease. A number of association studies have been published in scientific ...

  7. How Vaccines Can Prevent Serious Diseases - WebMD

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    The answer is yes,” said William Schaffner, MD, chair of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University. Besides young infants less than 6 months old, exceptions, he said, should ...

  8. Preventive Medicine Specialists Near Me | Schedule Online ...

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    21475 Ridgetop Cir Ste 150 Sterling, VA 20166. Tel: (571) 470-8116. Call Now. Book an Appointment. Physicians participating in the referral service program have chosen to participate, are in good standing at our hospitals, have not paid a fee, are credentialed to perform the service you have requested and are accepting new patients in their ...

  9. Medicare's Preventative Services - Healthline

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    Medicare Part B, which covers medical costs like doctor visits and outpatient procedures, includes coverage for a number of preventive health screenings, tests, and vaccines. Medicare Advantage ...