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Specific practices for the prevention of disease or mental disorders in susceptible individuals or populations. These include HEALTH PROMOTION, including mental health; protective procedures, such as COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; and monitoring and regulation of ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS. Primary prevention is to be distinguished from SECONDARY PREVENTION and TERTIARY PREVENTION.
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- Disease Prevention, Primary
- Prevention, Primary
- Disease Preventions, Primary
- Primary Disease Prevention
- Primary Disease Preventions
- Prevention, Primordial
- Primordial Prevention
- Preventions, Primordial
- Primordial Preventions
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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- Preventive Health Services (1968-1978)
- Preventive Medicine (1966-1978)
- specific disease/prevention & control (1966-1978)
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- National Library of Medicine. Primary Prevention. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011322. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011322
- Primary Prevention. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10353754