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Preventive Health Services

Preventive health services are organised interventions delivered to individuals and populations to avert disease, detect conditions early, and limit complications before they cause harm. They are conventionally classified by level: primary prevention reduces the occurrence of disease through immunisation, health edu…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 6 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 22× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-3585 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Preventive health services are organised interventions delivered to individuals and populations to avert disease, detect conditions early, and limit complications before they cause harm. They are conventionally classified by level: primary prevention reduces the occurrence of disease through immunisation, health education and risk-factor modification; secondary prevention uses screening and check-ups to identify disease at an asymptomatic, more treatable stage; and tertiary prevention manages established conditions to slow progression and preserve function. In practice these services include regular examinations, vaccinations, structured screening, counselling on healthy behaviour, and chronic-disease self-management support, and they are most effective when integrated into accessible primary healthcare. Research in this field examines how preventive provision shapes outcomes across the life course: the relationship between primary-healthcare services and the health-related quality of life of older persons living with non-communicable diseases, the role of health literacy in enabling self-management of long-term conditions such as osteoarthritis, and the methods households use to prevent infections such as malaria in young children. Programme-level evaluation, exemplified by the assessment of tuberculosis control activities, examines how preventive and case-finding strategies perform in real-world systems. Because many illnesses are avoidable or controllable, well-designed preventive services improve population health, reduce downstream demand on curative care, and depend on equitable access, sustained engagement and continuous evaluation of their reach and impact.

Research published in this journal

6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Health Literacy and Osteoarthritis Self-Management

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Program in Health Education, Columbia University, Teachers College, and School of Health and Professional Studies, Department of Health, Physical Education & Gerontological Studies and Services, City Univers
Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 21 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-18-2295

How this research is being cited

The 6 articles above have been cited 22 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Preventive Medicine And Care (ISSN 2474-3585).

Journal editorial board
Heejung Kim · South Korea Monica Wang · United States Siddhartha Jonnalagadda · United States

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