Preventive medicine is that discipline within medicine which is responsible for preventing illnesses by means of a combination of medical activities and advice.
Nowadays, efficient healthcare cannot be conceived without preventive medicine. The popular saying “prevention is better than cure”, is at the very root of efficient, effective healthcare. Preventive medicine offers diverse facets, depending on the evolution of the illness, and we can establish three types of prevention:
- Primary Prevention
- Secondary Prevention
- Tertiary Prevention
PRIMARY PREVENTION refers to the processes carried out before a particular illness appears. It is base on the promotion and protection of health, both in the individual and in his or her surroundings, including a healthy environment, eating habits, suitable physical exercise and so on.
Part of this type of prevention includes campaigns against specific illnesses (those related to smoking, alcohol, and flu for example) and strategies designed for the same, such as vaccines and prophylactic treatments.
One of the instruments for promoting healthcare and form preventive action is HEALTHCARE EDUCATION, which involves training the individual to acquire the basic knowledge, attitudes, and habits for the defence and promotion of individual and collective health. The goal is to improve peoples health, by teaching them to take on healthy lifestyles and enabling them to control high-risk situations and avoid them and their consequences.
ASSSA is an insurance company which focuses on meeting our clients health care needs, by offering them a complete team of doctors and a hospital network offering the maximum guarantee as regards Secondary Prevention in Preventive Medicine. One of the aims of the medical directors of our company is to work together with our healthcare intervention team, thus strengthening the idea of Prevention in order to achieve our principal goal: the good health of our clients.
With the help of the pages of our blog, we wish to promote Healthcare Education among our clients. Our primary objective is to support you in looking after your own health and to help you benefit from effective Primary Prevention.
In order to do this, we plan to publish diverse Healthcare Education campaigns, and we Will publish special pages in our blog, dedicated to leading specialists from our among our medical team, who Will inform thus train us in the most important points of the prevention of illnesses, as well as new developments in the medical field.
The information published in this media neither substitutes nor complements in any way the direct supervision of a doctor, his diagnosis or the treatment that he may prescribe. It should also not be used for self-diagnosis.
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ASSSA advises you to always consult your doctor about any issue concerning your health.
