Using Prevention Strategies in General Education

Education strategies for stroke prevention.

troke is a major public health burden in the United States, with indications that stroke is emerging as a global epidemic. Furthermore, there exists an appreciation that focus on clinical treatment alone will not significantly reduce the burden of stroke, including morbidity and mortality. Emphasis needs to shift to acknowledging the importance of behavioral change science. The focus of this mo...

General and Specific Prevention Strategies for Gastrointestinal Cancers.

All initiatives for health maintenance promoted by medical care professionals, medical institutions and societies with involvement of media and broadcastings start with general recommendations on healthy lifestyle (no smoking), nutrition, and physical activity. These efforts have provided good evidence for beneficial effects on human health, but need to be complemented by specific organ-targete...

Injury prevention education using pictorial information.

BACKGROUND Written materials used in pediatric public health settings often exceed the reading skills of caretakers. OBJECTIVE To compare a pictorial anticipatory guidance (PAG) sheet requiring limited reading skills to a TIPP (The Injury Prevention Program) sheet for providing injury prevention information to low-income urban families. DESIGN AND SETTING A convenience sample of families wi...

Concepts Education Strategies

Background: concepts education is considered as one of the important functions of medical education. On the other hand, now a days, medical concepts education with traditional and lecture-based methods are not effective and using new approaches is necessary. One of the approaches that brought new methods in medical concepts education is education of the concepts through new strategies. Thi...

Interdisciplinarity In General Education