preventive health care
- Subj. Area:
- VIII Health Care and Health Economics
- Ger:
- Gesundheitsvorsorge
- Fr:
- soins de santé préventifs
- SN:
- All measures aiming at the prevention and early diagnosis of diseases and disorders as well as the prevention of recurrences (based on Brockhaus-21); cf. 'health protection' which comprises safety precautions that seek either to minimise or to eliminate hazardous conditions that can cause bodily injury or disease; cf. 'health promotion' for encouraging consumer behaviours most likely to optimise health potentials through health information, preventive programmes, and access to medical care; use 'preventive medicine' for the medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease and the promotion and preservation of health; use 'hygiene' for the medical specialty concerned with the study of interrelations between humans and the environment, in particular the environmental influence on health
- UF:
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disease prevention
prevention [medicine]
prophylaxis
- RT:
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hygiene
life extension
predictive genetic diagnosis
predictive medicine
preventive medicine
- Conc:
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B: -
E: prevention
I: prévention
M: Preventive Health Services (D011314)
