RT Book, Section
A1 Pignone, Michael
A1 Salazar, René
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1184155576
T1 Health Maintenance & Disease Prevention
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2022
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264269389
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1184155576
RD 2024/04/16
AB Preventive  medicine  can  be  categorized  as  primary,  secondary,  or  tertiary.  Primary  prevention  aims  to  remove  or  reduce  disease  risk  factors  (eg,  immunization,  giving  up  or  not  starting  smoking).  Secondary  prevention  techniques  promote  early  detection  of  disease  or  precursor  states  (eg,  routine  cervical  Papanicolaou  screening  to  detect  carcinoma  or  dysplasia  of  the  cervix).  Tertiary  prevention  measures  are  aimed  at  limiting  the  impact  of  established  disease  (eg,  partial  mastectomy  and  radiation  therapy  to  remove  and  control  localized  breast  cancer).