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2. Preventive healthcare - Wikipedia

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   Research on preventive care addresses the question of whether it is cost saving or cost effective and whether there is an economics evidence base for health promotion and disease prevention. The need for and interest in preventive care is driven by the imperative to reduce health care costs while improving quality of care and the patient ...

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. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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   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 protection" ( smittevern ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Hospital-acquired infection - Wikipedia

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   Infectious disease. A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. [1] To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection. [2]

8. Pandemic prevention - Wikipedia

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   Pandemic prevention is the organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics. Those include measures to reduce causes of new infectious diseases and measures to prevent outbreaks and epidemics from becoming pandemics. It is not to be mistaken for pandemic preparedness or mitigation (e.g. against COVID-19) which largely seek ...

9. Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP): Definition, Side Effects ...

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   PEP Side Effects. Side effects of PEP include: Upset stomach. Fatigue. Headache. Diarrhea. Insomnia. Rarely, the drugs can cause serious health issues, including liver problems.