Preventive Medicine at Panama

Preventive Medicine: an Attempt at a Definition.

Preventive Medicine: An Attempt at a Definition: GEDDES SMITH and DR. LESTER J. EVANS. Obituary: William. Spencer Carter: DR. CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE and OTHERS. Losses in Personnel of Soviet Botany during the War: VLADIMIR C. Asmous. Recent Deaths ................................................................................................................ Scientific Events: Recent Contributions o...

Preventive Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine *

The newly formed Section of Preventive Medicine, which has recently come into being as a division of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, has been established on the principle that preventive medicine is part of clinical medicine. This calls for a broad use of the term clinical medicine. It implies that clinical medicine means more than the practice 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