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The aim of Executive Health check Up is to extend the healthy life expectancy of population, to avoid untimely death and to improve the quality of life for people with a disease or disability.
Prevention is directed towards the early recognition and prevention of disease.
It is an effective component of health care: it achieves more positive effects than medical ?treatment and at less cost
Health promotion is aimed at influencing people's social circumstances and lifestyles so that their health is improved (or maintained) and disease is prevented.
Why is Preventive Health Care so important?
Because about half of all deaths from heart disease are sudden and unexpected, there's little opportunity for treatment. For people at risk of sudden death, prevention is the only hope.
That's why more effort should be focused on prevention. Atherosclerosis begins in early
adulthood, but it may be decades before clinical disease shows up. We don't fully understand all
arises of heart disease, but large epidemiological studies have identified risk factors and strategies to reduce the risk. The risk factors we can modify, treat or control include
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Daily exercise
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Weight control
- Proper nutrition
- Avoidance of smoking and drug abuse
- Abstinence from or moderate alcohol use
- Control of high blood pressure
The decline in death rates from cardiovascular disease in the United States may be due largely to the public's adopting a more healthful lifestyle.
This underscores why it's important for the medical profession to advocate prevention strategies. More and more evidence shows that atherosclerotic plaques in arteries can regress even in people with advanced disease. As our understanding of the causes of Disease process improves, the day will come when we can direct preventive measures at the disease process itself.
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