General Hygiene and Preventive Medicine

Preventive Medicine in General Practice

setting for prevention (9), (10); the general practitioner has frequent contact with the majority of a defined population, including those at risk. He or she is perceived as credible and trustworthy, communicates on a one to one basis with the patient and is supported by a primary care team. The potential for preventive medicine in general practice is beginning to be explored (11)?(15). Despite...

Somatic hygiene: osteopathic manipulative medicine as preventive treatment.

Before the later part of the 20th century, patients rarely came to a physician’s door unless they were feeling unwell. Lucky for all of us, we live in an age when people are more aware of the importance of keeping themselves healthy and when insurance companies and the government will reimburse routine visits to promote the maintenance of health. These entities are also looking for ways to reim...

Preventive Medicine in World War II. Vol. II, Environmental Hygiene

This volume is the first of a series to be published recording the accomplishments of various divisions of the Preventive Medicine Service of the U.S. Army during World War II. The whole story of these accomplishments , which took a variety of forms and were carried out in combat on many fronts, is a record of how preventive medicine grew mightily during the past generation and particularly dur...

The Practitioner's Library of Medicine and Surgery. Volume XII. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. 1937

a campaign to deal with this problem and emphasizes the part played by the practitioner in this scheme; the worker in India will get many valuable hints from this chapter. Early chapters discuss the hygiene of nutrition, of clothes, of exercise and rest, and of air and sunshine, sex hygiene, maternity and child hygiene, and personal mental hygiene. Sewage disposal and the protection of water su...

The preventive medicine milestone project: public health and general preventive medicine.