Preventive Health Care and Disease Prevention

Abstract

In the last decades it was evident that the health problems worldwide could not be solved only by spending money for disease treatment but by creating and application of disease prevention strategies. The aim of this paper is to give a common understanding about the major tasks of the prevention medicine, about the types and activities of the prevention. It describes the differences between disease prevention and health promotion. The levels of the diseases prevention are presented. The strategies of preventive medicine, their advantages, disadvantages and interaction are explained. The paper gives information how the evaluation of possibilities for diseases prevention could be done. At the end, the reader will learn about the necessary premises for a successful preventive startegy in the policy of preventive medicine.