Quaternary prevention: The antidote to medical overuse! - JCHM- Print ISSN No: 2394-272X Online No:- 2394-2738 Article DOI 10.18231/j.jchm.2023.001, Journal of Community Health Management-J Manag

While this attention is both justified and welcome, it may lead to over enthusiastic screening, unnecessary diagnosis, and unwarranted treatment. Such diagnostic and therapeutic “errors of commission,” or misadventures, are especially of risk in an antenatal setting, where both mother and fetus are exposed to any intervention. These risks can be biomedical or psychosocial in nature. Unwanted hy...

With scientific advances in medical sciences over the years many new diagnostic as well as treatment modalities are developed with many patients getting quality of life which was not available before. On the other hand it is also observed that with advances in medical sciences the patient care is becoming more and more specialized and many new super specialty services coming up. As result of su...

the discussion between general practitioners (gps) and healthcare delivery organizations necessitates a common language. the presentation of the 4 types of gp’s activities, opens dialogue but can lead to possible misunderstandings between the micro- and macro-level of the healthcare system. this commentary takes 4 examples: costs reduction by p4, priority of beneficence or nonmaleficence, role ...

Quaternary prevention is an action taken to identify a patient at risk of overmedicalisation, to protect him from new medical invasion, and to suggest to him interventions which are ethically acceptable. It belongs mostly to family medicine because of the family physician's position who is the first contact to the patient and "leader" of patient through health care system. Family physician must...