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Preventive medicine

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The General Preventive Medicine Residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital

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Keeping Healthy People Healthy: Practice Preventive Medicine

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Aristotle Sun, MD - Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

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Stony Brook's Preventive Medicine Residency Program

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Family Medicine and Preventive Care

Preventive healthcare consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment. Just as health comprises a variety of physical and mental states, so do disease and disability, which are affected by environmental factors, genetic predisposition, disease agents, and lifestyle choices. Health, disease, and disability are dynamic processes which begin before individuals realize they are affected. Disease prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.