What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems

Prevention has been a main issue of recent policy orientations in health care. This renews the interest on how different organizational designs and the definition of payment schemes to providers may affect the incentives to provide preventive health care. We focus on the externality resulting from referral decisions from primary to acute care providers. This makes our analysis complementary to ...

[Controversies in preventive health care. III. Juvenile health care].

Test ordering for preventive health care among family medicine residents.

OBJECTIVE To determine which screening tests family medicine residents order as part of preventive health care. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Alberta and Ontario. PARTICIPANTS First- and second-year family medicine residents at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, the University of Calgary in Alberta, and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, during the 2011 to 2012 academic ...

Preventive Medicine in Medical Care

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN MEDICAL CARE. By Kurt Schwarz. (Pp 216. £2.50). London: H. K. Lewis, 1970. THE author of this book combines his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Leeds with those of Assistant Medical Officer to the City of Leeds and Consultant Physician to the United Leeds Hospitals. By virtue of these appointments he is in the u...

Optimization of preventive health care facility locations

BACKGROUND Preventive health care programs can save lives and contribute to a better quality of life by diagnosing serious medical conditions early. The Preventive Health Care Facility Location (PHCFL) problem is to identify optimal locations for preventive health care facilities so as to maximize participation. When identifying locations for preventive health care facilities, we need to consid...

Adult Preventive Health Care: Cancer Screening

® Regents of the University of Michigan These guidelines should not be construed as including all proper methods of care or excluding other acceptable methods of care reasonably directed to obtaining the same results. The ultimate judgment regarding any specific clinical procedure or treatment must be made by the physician in light of the circumstances presented by the patient. Adult Preventive...