نتایج جستجو برای: secondary prevention
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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify associations of internal motivation, perceived health competency, and health literacy with primary and secondary cancer prevention. Methods: A telephone survey was conducted with a sample of 2,700, 30-69 year olds, proportionally extracted from Gangwon Province, South Korea. The dependent variables were actions in primary and secondary prevention...
As a "thought experiment," the authors used a modified stages of change model for smoking to define homogeneous segments within various hypothetical populations. The authors then estimated the population effect of public health interventions that targeted the different segments. Under most assumptions, interventions that emphasized primary and secondary prevention, by targeting the Never Smoker...
In May 2001, the Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program issued revised guidelines for diagnosing and treating high blood cholesterol.1 These guidelines represent a major advance in risk assessment. They were preceded by the ATP I guidelines (1988), which focused on primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD), and by the ATP II guidelines (1993),...
During adolescence, teenagers try a range of risk behaviors including smoking, drinking, and the use of soft drugs. Because substance use contributes to an unhealthy lifestyle of teenagers on the short term and can lead to serious health problems on the longer term, prevention in this target group is important. This chapter provides an overview of the determinants of substance use on the one ha...
BACKGROUND To respond to the rapid surge in the incidence of suicide in Japan, which appears to be an ongoing trend, the Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention (J-MISP) have launched a multimodal community-based suicide prevention program, NOCOMIT-J. The primary aim of this study is to examine whether NOCOMIT-J is effective in reducing suicidal behavior in the community....
This commentary presents a conceptual framework, Quality in the Continuum of Cancer Care (QCCC), for quality improvement studies and research. Data sources include review of relevant literature (cancer care, quality improvement, organizational behavior, health services evaluation, and research). The Detecting Early Tumors Enables Cancer Therapy (DETECT) project is used to apply the QCCC model t...
Philip Greenland, MD, Chair; Jonathan Abrams, MD; Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD; M. Gene Bond, PhD; Luther T. Clark, MD; Michael H. Criqui, MD; John R. Crouse III, MD; Lawrence Friedman, MD; Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD; David M. Herrington, MD, MHS; Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH; Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH; William C. Roberts, MD; William Stanford, MD; Neil Stone, MD; H. Jeremy Swan, MD, PhD; Kathryn A. Tauber...
Low dose aspirin is effective, safe, and economical in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. We have found that only one-third of post-menopausal women with cardiovascular disease are using aspirin and that the majority of women who are using aspirin are doing so for primary prevention. Improvements in this area of medical practice are both necessary and feasible.
Effective primary and secondary cancer prevention programmes are key to improve public health. Cervical cancer is preventable if high quality screening programmes, diagnosis and treatment are offered to female populations at high coverage. Nevertheless, it continues to be a public health problem, and screening programmes need improvements. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been firmely established...
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