Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle
Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle — Expert Guide
How it begins
Niveles de prevención, determinantes de salud, tamizaje, inmunización y las intervenciones sobre la conducta: nutrición, actividad física, sueño, tabaco, alcohol y manejo del estrés
What it covers
- Conceptual Framework of Preventive Medicine
- · Prevention Levels
- · Natural History of the Disease and Window of Opportunity
- · Determinants of Health
- Epidemiology and Preventive Decision Metrics
- · Effect Measures: RRR, RRA, NNT and NNH
- · Specific Bias of Screening Studies
- Screening: Principles and Performance
- · Wilson and Jungner criteria
- · Performance of a Screening Test
- Oncological Screening: Established Programs
- · Colorectal Cancer
- · Breast Cancer
- · Cervical Cancer
- · Lung Cancer
- · Prostate Cancer (shared decision)
- · Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Lifestyle Medicine: The Six Pillars
- Nutrition and Dietary Pattern
- · Mediterranean Diet and DASH
- · Components and Mechanisms
- · Nutritional Clinical Correlates
- · Glycemic Index, Food Chronology, Fasting and Microbiota
- Physical Activity and Exercise
- · Physiology and Mechanisms of Benefit
- · Exercise Prescription (FITT-VP Principle)
- · Intensity, HIIT, Strength Training and Sedentary Lifestyle
- Obesity and Weight Control
- Preventive Cardiometabolic Health
- · Metabolic Syndrome (harmonized criteria, ≥3 out of 5)
- Sleep as a Preventive Pillar
- Smoking and Cessation
- · Intervention: the “5 A” Model
- Alcohol
- Stress Management and Mental Health
- Social Connection and Loneliness
- Behavior Change
- · Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente)
- Adult Immunization
- Chemoprevention
- Photoprotection and Prevention of Skin Cancer
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Prevention by Life Stages
- The Integrated Preventive Consultation
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- Subject
- Internal Medicine
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 44
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02