preventive medicine

Preferred Label : preventive medicine;

MeSH definition : A medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease (PRIMARY PREVENTION) and the promotion and preservation of health in the individual.;

MeSH synonym : medicine, preventive; Preventative Medicine; Medicine, Preventative;

DeCS synonym : Preventive Care;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Preventive healthcare;

MeSH hyponym : Care, Preventive; Preventative Care; Care, Preventative;

MeSH annotation : for specific disease, use / prev: Manual 19.7 , 19.8.58; PRIMARY PREVENTION, SECONDARY PREVENTION and TERTIARY PREVENTION are also available; use for the specialty; for specific disease, use /prev; PRIMARY PREVENTION, SECONDARY PREVENTION and TERTIARY PREVENTION are also available;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive healthcare;

Details

Origin ID

D011315;

UMLS CUI

C0033110;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Manual NTBT mappings (CISMeF)
- health maintenance/preventive medicine [ICPC-2 Rubric]
MeSH Descriptor(s) used for indexing
- disease [MeSH Descriptor]
Metaterm(s)
- preventive medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- Preventive Care [MeSH concept]
- preventive medicine [MeSH concept]
See also
- Disease Prevention [DeCS]
- health promotion [MeSH Descriptor]
- preventive health services [MeSH Descriptor]
- primary prevention [MeSH Descriptor]
- public health [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- prevention and control [MeSH Qualifier]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Preventive Medicine [NCIt concept]
- Preventive medicine [LOINC method]
- Preventive medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- preventive medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]

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