| Literature DB >> 16982343 |
Kirk A Stiffler1, Lowell W Gerson.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16982343 DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2006.06.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Med Clin North Am ISSN: 0733-8627 Impact factor: 2.264