Injuries in Adolescent Workers: Health Promotion and Primary Prevention

Injuries in adolescent workers. Health promotion and primary prevention.

1. Adolescent workers experience significant morbidity and mortality. Specific characteristics and lifestyle issues of adolescents increase their susceptibility to injury and illness. 2. Occupational and environmental health nurses need to advocate for improved legislation to protect children and adolescents and to develop better data collection and surveillance. 3. Occupational and environment...

The promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental health problems in child and adolescent

Improving mental health and reducing the burden of mental illness are complementary strategies which, along with the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders, significantly improve population health and well-being. A Institute of Medicine report describes a range of interventions for mental disorders that included treatment and maintenance, reserving the term "prevention" fo...

Health-Promotion and Disease-Prevention Behaviors of Primary-Care Practitioners

BACKGROUND In the 1990s the primary focus of medicine was shifted to disease prevention. Accordingly, it became the responsibility of primary-care physicians to educate and counsel the general population not only on disease prevention specifically but health promotion generally as well. Moreover, it was, and is still today, considered important that physicians provide positive examples of healt...

Continence Promotion, Education& Primary Prevention

Health promotion and disease prevention in HMOs.