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Otto P. Geier, chairman of the Preventive Medicine Section of the American Medical Association ( AMA ), was quoted in The New York Times in 1917 as praising socialized medicine as a way to " discover disease in its incipiency ," help end " venereal diseases, alcoholism, tuberculosis ," and " make a fundamental contribution to social welfare.

* Charles C. Bass ( 1875-1975 ), " Father of Preventive Dentistry " and researcher in tropical medicine

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* Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine researches preventive medicine, epidemiology, mathematics and statistics, psychology and psychiatry.

Bagian received his Professional Engineers Certification in 1986, and was board-certified in aerospace medicine by the American College of Preventive Medicine in 1987.

The U. S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine ( USACHPPM ) mission is to provide worldwide health promotion and preventive medicine leadership and services to identify, assess and counter environmental, occupational and disease threats to the health, fitness and readiness of America ’ s Army, the Army community and the Army civilian workforce.

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Preventive medicine or preventive care consists of measures taken to prevent diseases, ( or injuries ) rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.

Preventive medicine strategies are typically described as taking place at the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention levels.

Category: Preventive medicine

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* Administrative support for the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of nationally renowned, non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that assesses the benefits and harms of preventive services and makes recommendations about which preventive services should be incorporated routinely into primary care practice.

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Preventive dental treatment is also necessary ( and often overlooked by the patient ), as the lack of saliva associated with xerostomia creates an ideal environment for the proliferation of bacteria that cause dental caries ( cavities ).

Systems to stratify evidence by quality have been developed, such as this one by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force for ranking evidence about the effectiveness of treatments or screening:

For example, exorbitant bribes were demanded for allowing goods to pass in and out of the Gaza Strip, while heads of the Preventive Security Service apparatus profited from their involvement in the gravel import and cement and construction industries, such as the Great Arab Company for Investment and Development, the al-Motawaset Company, and the al-Sheik Zayid construction project.

A review and draft recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in 2012 found insufficient evidence to determine risk verses harm from supplementation in women before menopause or in men and thus does not recommend it for this group.

Preventive group therapy has proven effective as a prophylactic treatment for postpartum depression.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force in 2012 recommended against screening for prostate cancer using the PSA testing, due to the risk of over-diagnosis and over-treatment with most prostate cancer remaining asymptomatic.

He is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and serves as co-director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and the Preventive Defense Project.

" Later in the 1980s and up to 1993, before returning to the Pentagon as deputy secretary of defense, he held positions as chairman of Technology Strategies Alliances, professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and a co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

He also rejoined the faculty at Stanford University, becoming a professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a member of the advisory board of the Roosevelt Institution.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF, 2012 ) does not recommend PSA screening, noting that the test may result in “ overdiagnosis ” and “ overtreatment ” because " most prostate cancer is asymptomatic for life ," and treatments involve risks of complications.

A review commissioned by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded that " Prostate-specific antigen-based screening results in small or no reduction in prostate cancer-specific mortality and is associated with harms related to subsequent evaluation and treatments, some of which may be unnecessary ," or more simply, " he potential benefit does not outweigh the expected harms " in patients not already diagnosed or being treated for prostate cancer.

* Preventive maintenance, a job for fault prevention during machine executes before occurring some problems.

Preventive ( adjuvant ) doses are typically around 45 – 60 Gy in 1. 8 – 2 Gy fractions ( for breast, head, and neck cancers ).

The US Task Force on Community Preventive Services declared that " strong scientific evidence " existed for these when " combined with other interventions ", but a Cochrane review concluded that it was " difficult to establish their independent role and value ".

The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) recommends against routine screening for testicular cancer in asymptomatic adolescent and adults, which means that men should not perform routine testicular self-exams.

Preventive treatment for those who come into sexual contact with an individual with syphilis is important.

# Preventive cultural practices: Selecting varieties best for local growing conditions, and maintaining healthy crops, is the first line of defense, together with plant quarantine and ' cultural techniques ' such as crop sanitation ( e. g. removal of diseased plants to prevent spread of infection ).

The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) has strongly recommends routine screening for men 35 years and older and women 45 years and older for lipid disorders and the treatment of abnormal lipids in people who are at increased risk of coronary heart disease.

** The Research Centre for Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine ( CAPC )

** U. S. Army Public Health Command ( USAPHC ), known as the U. S. Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine ( USACHPPM ) prior to 1 October 2009 ; it and the U. S. Army Veterinary Command ( VETCOM ) were merged in 2011 to create USAPHC.

That summer, the Army Environmental Hygiene Agency formed the basis of the provisional Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine ( CHPPM ).