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Welcome to Preventive Medicine and Public Health!

Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine focuses on disease prevention and health promotion through identifying and reducing risk factors for development or transmission of disease.

 Prevention

1. Primary – prevent initial development of disease
2. Secondary – detect early existing disease
3. Tertiary – reduce complications of existing disease

Public Health¹

Public health is the art and science of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention.

Public health helps improve the health and well being of people in local communities across our nation.

Public health helps people who are less fortunate to achieve a healthier lifestyle.

Public health works to prevent health problems before they occur.

¹ http://www.whatispublichealth.org