Preventive Health Care

Course overview

The concept of preventive health care involves disease identification in specific at-risk populations. Interdisciplinary health teams are usually an integral part of such programs because they provide combined knowledge of the existing screening guidelines for acute and chronic health diseases. Health prevention strategies should aim at the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions focused on reducing the chance of developing chronic diseases. Educating patients on health prevention also helps to promote strong patient engagement, and it raises public awareness of how poor health habits can lead to the development of many common chronic diseases. Good health prevention education promotes patient awareness of needed behavior adjustments that need to be made in order to avoid unhealthy lifestyle patterns and diseases. Health prevention involves a lifelong commitment to healthy lifestyle choices.