Preventive Medicine in Industry

Preventive Psychiatry in Industry

ture of morale and on the science of selection?putting the right men in the right jobs. This work naturally raised some antagonism?like other psychiatric researches?and it was perhaps not surprising that after the war there was a return in the Services to previous arrangements, and less use was made of psychiatrists. There were in any case fewer in the Services to be used, for the majority had ...

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

Preventive Medicine

in 1920 stated in regard to the teaching of hygiene and preventive medicine, that these were principles and concepts and not merely 'subjects', and that the teaching of preventive medicine should permeate the whole of medical education. The general practitioner must develop the preventive outlook, and preach and practise it in his profession. In the United Kingdom, the practitioner has already ...