Public health, like medicine, focuses on three stages of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary prevention means preventing disease before it occurs by altering behaviors.

There are several forms of prevention to be considered: primary, secondary and tertiary. Tertiary prevention is what we undertake in our clinical practises.

Whilst primary suicide prevention aims to reduce the number of new cases of suicide in the population and tertiary prevention attempts to diminish clusters of suicides in an area ("suicide ...

Dr. Laurie Ruggiero is a clinical psychologist and behavioral scientist. Dr. Ruggiero’s program of research focuses on (a) understanding behavioral/psychosocial aspects of obesity and diabetes; and (b ...

I devised, implemented and investigated athlete monitoring as a complementary prevention strategy for groin and hamstring injuries in professional development football. The aim was to introduce a ...

You can have either primary, secondary or tertiary adrenal insufficiency. Primary adrenal insufficiency is when your adrenal glands are damaged and can’t make the cortisol you need.