Preventive medicine

Author: Ma Mingxin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Designed to meet the needs of a broad range of medical students, particularly those in clinical medicine, by establishing a health-oriented mindset, promoting health, preventing diseases, and fostering a comprehensive public health perspective. Through the teaching of Preventive Medicine courses, medical students gain the fundamental concepts, knowledge, and skills of the discipline, aiming to achieve quality-oriented education rather than specialized education. In terms of content selection, the textbook focuses on non-preventive and epidemiological research methods, investigates the main risk factors for population health, and implements individual and group preventive healthcare comprehensively using sociomedical approaches. The content is carefully curated to ensure close integration and mutual permeation, forming a relatively complete system and providing training in the concepts, basic knowledge, and skills required for general practitioners. The book, excluding the introduction, is divided into four parts and thirty-two chapters. Part 1 elucidates the relationship between the environment and health, covering the prevention and control strategies for harmful factors such as living environments, production environments, geological environments, and food-related health issues. Part 2 focuses on statistical methods commonly used in Preventive Medicine. Part 3 explores the application of epidemiology. Part 4 covers community health services and general practice. This book introduces the fundamental knowledge of Preventive Medicine, including four parts: the environment and health, commonly used medical statistical methods, the application of epidemiology, and community health services and general practice.