Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department.

نویسندگان

  • Kirk A Stiffler
  • Lowell W Gerson
چکیده

This article provides an overview of health promotion and disease and injury prevention concepts. It provides an emergency medicine perspective and reviews approaches that can be used in the emergency department. It discusses examples of innovative emergency medicine-based preventive activities including prevention in the prehospital setting. This article ends with a discussion of the importance of a system approach to prevention and suggests a role for a preventionist as a new member of the emergency medicine team.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CJEM

دوره 8 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006