Prevention in Clinical Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Patterns of Illness and Medical Practice in the United States

   • Daniel M. Becker

   Pages 1-12

3. History of Preventive Medicine

   • Daniel M. Becker

   Pages 13-21

4. Screening for Early Disease Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests

   • John T. Philbrick, Daniel M. Becker

   Pages 23-37

5. Adult Immunization

   • David S. Fedson

   Pages 39-48

6. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis

   • Gordon M. Dickinson

   Pages 49-63

7. Hepatitis

   • Richard L. Greenman

   Pages 65-79

8. Streptococcal Pharyngitis

   • Mark Multach

   Pages 81-96

9. Tuberculosis

   • David C. Deitz

   Pages 97-119

10. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    • Joseph C. Chan

    Pages 121-135

11. AIDS

    • Gordon M. Dickinson

    Pages 137-152

12. Coronary Artery Disease

    • Arthur M. Fournier

    Pages 153-164

13. Diabetes

    • Jay M. Sosenko

    Pages 165-177

14. Hypertension

    • Mark T. O’Connell

    Pages 179-200

15. Thromboembolism

    • Daniel M. Becker

    Pages 201-218

16. Nephrolithiasis

    • Laurence B. Gardner

    Pages 219-229

17. Cancer

    • David V. Schapira, J. Donald Temple

    Pages 231-252

18. Stroke

    • Joseph R. Berger, Roger E. Kelley

    Pages 253-268

19. Osteoporosis

    • Eric Reiss

    Pages 269-275

20. Preventable Visual Loss

    • Elizabeth Hodapp

    Pages 277-285

Prevention of disease and injury, including early identification of risks and disease and optimal control of potentially debilitating or fatal complications of chronic conditions, is the area of clinical medicine that holds the greatest promise for improving human health. Each year a long list of major, but potentially preventable health problems exacts a terrible human and financial toll. These problems urgently need our attention, especially as major advances in curative medicine become more complex and costly. Prevention of disease and injury may well be the central health issue of our time, an issue of vital concern to every quarter of our society. Now is a very good time to promote prevention. Citizens and some social groups are increasingly aware of and interested in health and fitness issues. There is great enthusiasm about-even obsession with-health, and we are seeing an astonishing proliferation of health publications and media presentations for laymen, fitness and weight control cen­ ters, exercise programs, health food stores, disease support groups, health education programs, and do-it-yourself diagnostic kits. All of this betokens an increased health consciousness on the part of public and perhaps signals greater individual accountability for health.

• health
• medicine
• prevention

• University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA

  Daniel M. Becker

• University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, USA

  Laurence B. Gardner

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