Preventive Medicine Physicians in Bronx (NY)
Plastic Surgery, Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery
1755 1st Ave
New York, NY 10128
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Internal Medicine
Public Health Medicine
111 E 210th St
Room 131
Bronx, NY 10467 -
Internal Medicine
Preventive Medicine
3765 Riverdale Ave
Suite 5
Bronx, NY 10463 -
Internal Medicine
Public Health Medicine
1309 Fulton Ave
1st Floor
Bronx, NY 10456 -
Public Health Medicine
4521 Delafield Ave
Bronx, NY 10471 -
Family Practice
Public Health Medicine
1276 Fulton Ave
3rd Floor
Bronx, NY 10456 -
Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine
Preventive Medicine
St. Barnabas Hospital
4422 Third Ave 3rd Mls
Bronx, NY 10457 -
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiology
Internal Medicine
Public Health Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
111 E 210th St
Bronx, NY 10467 -
Internal Medicine
Preventive Medicine
Occupational Medicine
1309 Fulton Ave
1st Floor
Bronx, NY 10456 -
Public Health Medicine
St. Barnabas Hospital
4422 Third Ave 3rd Mls
Bronx, NY 10457 -
General Practice
Family Practice
Preventive Medicine
Occupational Medicine
1423 Glover St
Bronx, NY 10462
Preventive Medicine
- A preventive medicine specialist focuses on the health of individuals and defined populations in order to protect, promote and maintain health and well-being, and to prevent disease, disability and premature death. The distinctive components of preventive medicine include:
- Biostatistics and the application of biostatistical principles and methodology
- Epidemiology and its application to population-based medicine and research.
- Health services management and administration including: developing, assessing, and assuring health policies; planning, implementing, directing, budgeting, and evaluating population health and disease management programs; and utilizing legislative and regulatory processes to enhance health;
- Control of environmental factors that may adversely affect health;
- Control and prevention of occupational factors that may adversely affect health safety;
- Clinical preventive medicine activities, including measures to promote health and prevent the occurrence, progression, and disabling effects of disease and injury;
- Assessment of social, cultural, and behavioral influences on health.
- A preventive medicine physician may be a specialist in general preventive medicine, public health, occupational medicine, or aerospace medicine. This specialist works with large population groups as well as with individual patients to promote health and understand the risks of disease, injury, disability, and death, seeking to modify and eliminate these risks.
- Medical Toxicology
- A specialist who is expert in the evaluation and management of patients with accidental or intentional poisoning through exposure to prescription and nonprescription medications, drugs of abuse, household or industrial toxins, and environmental toxins. Important areas of medical toxicology include acute pediatric and adult drug ingestion; drug abuse, addiction and withdrawal; chemical poisoning exposure and toxicity; hazardous materials exposure and toxicity; and occupational toxicology.
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
- A specialist who treats decompression illness and diving accident cases and uses hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat such conditions as carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds, tissue damage from radiation and burns, and bone infections. This specialist also serves as consultant to other physicians in all aspects of hyperbaric chamber operations, and assesses risks and applies appropriate standards to prevent disease and disability in divers and other persons working in altered atmospheric conditions.
Top searched Preventive Medicine Physicians in Bronx, NY:
- There are 10 Preventive Medicine Physicians in Bronx, NY
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- Preventive Medicine Physicians in Bronx, NY have practiced medicine for an average of 33 years.
