“An Ounce of Prevention”: A Primary Care Based Prevention Program for Pre-Diabetic Population

Integration of suicide prevention program into primary health care network: a field clinical trial in Iran

  Background: Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC netwo...

O8: A Prevention Program for Postpartum OCD

There has been a recent rise in research focused on maternal psychological conditions during the perinatal period. Although the majority of investigations have examined postpartum depression, there is a growing appreciation for the deleterious consequences of maternal anxiety in the perinatal period for both the mother and child. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), in particular, has emerged a...

An ounce of prevention: a pound of cure for an ailing health care system.

Among first-world countries blessed with abundance, as well as within developing nations struggling to move forward, achieving and sustaining acceptable health care services are priorities for civic leaders, medical workers, and citizens. When epidemiologic trends, including escalating rates of chronic illness,1,2 rapidly aging populations, and greater-than-ever health care use, are juxtaposed ...

An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

Neural tube defects: A need for population-based prevention program

through spinal defect and histopathological fi ndings.[2] Majority of NTDs are isolated/non-syndromic and are not associated with other congenital malformations. However in about 10% of the cases, NTD can be a part of genetic syndrome hence may follow Mendelian inheritance. The syndromes associated with neural tube defects include Walker-Warburg syndrome, Jarcho-Levin syndrome, Robert syndrome ...