Application of Natural Ingredients to Preventive Medicine

The application of preventive medicine to the control of violence.

SIR WILLIAM OSLER, IN HIS FINAL PUBLISHED LECTURE, THE EVOLUtion of Modern Medicine, discussed with great optimism the emergence of preventive medicine. He marveled at the successful public health campaigns against malaria and yellow fever that decreased morbidity and mortality by “up to an order of magnitude”. Since early in the last century, scientific data have correlated clinical illness wi...

Application of preventive medicine resources in the health insurance system

OBJECTIVE To identify the financial resources and investments provided for preventive medicine programs by health insurance companies of all kinds. METHODS Data were collected from 30 large health insurance companies, with over 100 thousand individuals recorded, and registered at the Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar. RESULTS It was possible to identify the percentage of participants of...

Preventive Medicine

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...

Preventive Medicine

Background. African Americans have low immunization rates, yet little is known about their immunization knowledge, attitudes, and practices or about the effect of outreach to this audience. In Spring 1997, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) launched a statewide culturally sensitive and ethnically specific media campaign directed toward African Americans. This campaign was prece...

Preventive Medicine