Preventive Services for Healthy Living
What can I do to keep myself healthy?
What can my doctor do to help me stay healthy?
- Don’t use any form of tobacco.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Exercise regularly.
- Drink alcohol in moderation, if at all.
- Don’t use illegal drugs.
- Practice safe sex.
- Use seat belts (and car seats for children) when riding in a car or truck.
- See your doctor regularly for preventive care.
What is a “preventive service”?
- Tests (also called screenings) to check your general health or the health of certain parts of your body
- Regular measurements of weight, cholesterol levels and blood pressure
- Advice about diet, exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drug use, stress and accident prevention
- Immunizations (“shots”) for both children and adults
- Special tests at certain times in your life, such as during pregnancy and after age 50
Will my doctor tell me which preventive services I need?
Who pays for preventive services?
What preventive services do women need?
Your doctor may give you advice about exercise and diet. For example, your doctor may tell you how much calcium you need to prevent bone problems, or he or she may talk to you about taking folic acid before you get pregnant and lowering the fat and cholesterol in your diet. Your doctor may also give you advice about alcohol and drug use and sexually transmitted infections. As you get close to menopause, your doctor will talk to you about hormone replacement therapy. Your doctor may also talk to you about injury prevention practices, such as using seat belts and having smoke detectors in your home.
What preventive services do men need?
Your doctor may talk to you about the importance of diet and exercise, testing for prostate cancer and avoiding alcohol, tobacco, drugs and sexually transmitted infections. Your doctor may also talk to you about injury prevention practices, such as using seat belts and having smoke detectors in your home.
What preventive services do children need?
Sometimes the amount of a certain vaccine cannot keep up with the number of people who need it. More info…
Your doctor will check your child to make sure he or she is growing and developing properly.Your doctor will tell you what you can do to keep your child’s teeth healthy.Your doctor may also give you advice about how to keep your child safe from accidents and injuries (for example, using car seats and seat belts and keeping your child away from poisons and electric outlets). Your doctor will also talk to you about teaching your child healthy eating habits and exercise habits. Your doctor can tell you how to teach your child about the dangers of drugs, alcohol and tobacco. You can also ask your doctor for tips on how to talk to an older child about avoiding pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and AIDS.
Other Organizations
- U.S. Surgeon General’s My Family Health Portrait
https://familyhistory.hhs.gov
1-888-478-4423
ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov
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Written by familydoctor.org editorial staff.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Reviewed/Updated: 08/07
Created: 09/00
Filed under: activism, future, goals, happiness, health, purity
I think that “preventative services” or “prevention” is a misnomer. The various steps advised in this and other articles as we get to differerent life stages can at best lower the risk of diseaseas like breast or prostate cancer, not prevent them. I’ve addressed this in my book, Conquer Prostate Cancer (www.ConquerProstateCancer.com).
For instance, not smoking at all and not drinking alcohol excessively, – and much more (no or litte red meat, plenty of antioxidants through selected vegetables, etc.) can reduce the chances of getting cancer by a factor of five, ten or even twenty. But steps you should take to lower the risk of getting cancer do not guarantee you’ll prevent cancer onset.
For now we also have to rely on having good genes and a safe, non-toxic environment, – matters which are not under individual control.
So keep taking steps to lower the personal and collective risks known to cause cancer;, but with so many variables, don’t assume we can prevent cancer iteself,
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The old saying that prevention is better that cure has never made more sense than it does today. With the rising cost of doctor and hospital visits, going natural when it comes to personal care is option number one.
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We all have some sort of annual budget subconsciously allocated for things like “seasonal name brand clothes” and “fancy restaurant meals” but not much attention to detail is placed on finding out what ingredients are in our “everyday usage bath & body skincare products”. Have you ever noticed that the moment you get out of the shower your skin feels very dry, which then leads you to automatically apply lotion? Some will say it’s because of the water, but is it really just that simple?
The truth of the matter is, the inexpensive five pack of bar soap that you love to throw in the shopping cart along with the inexpensive bottle of lotion that tags along is not really your friend and further more, these same soaps and lotions were not designed to work together to save you money.
These “mass produced basic popular skincare products” were designed for you to consume as much of it as possible in a relatively short period of time, then return for a refill and do it all over again. Now don’t get me wrong, if the ingredients used in these products were beneficial for your long term health, then everything would be fine but that is to the contrary.
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I wouldnt call these preventative services as they do not prevent you getting ill i would call them more along the lines of health assistant services since they assist you to stay healthy not prevent you from getting ill.