Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department.

Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department.

Stiffler Kirk A; Gerson Lowell W

Emergency medicine clinics of North America

2006

2006-11

This article provides an overview of health promotion and disease and injury prevention concepts. It provides an emergency medicine perspective and reviews approaches that can be used in the emergency department. It discusses examples of innovative emergency medicine-based preventive activities including prevention in the prehospital setting. This article ends with a discussion of the importance of a system approach to prevention and suggests a role for a preventionist as a new member of the emergency medicine team.

*Emergency Medical Services; Cause of Death/trends; Emergency Service; Health Behavior; Health Promotion/*methods; Hospital/*organization & administration/statistics & numerical data; Humans; Preventive Health Services/*organization & administration

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