Category: P

Health care directed toward precluding the onset of a health problem.  

Actions taken by a person to prevent the onset of a disease or to delay its onset.  

A list of eight lifestyle factors that are associated with major effects on a person’s health.  

The conceptualization of changes that can be predicted to result as a consequence of preventive efforts in the form of programs and procedures that preclude the occurrence of particular health problems.  

Methods taken by each person and by social institutions to prevent the onset of disease. These methods include healthful lifestyles, environments, the use of immunizations, periodic medical examinations, and dental examinations.  

A functional characteristic of all languages representing what is not true or real.  

The number of existing cases of a disease at a given place and time per the size of the population. Usually measured in the number of cases per 1,000 in a population. A measure of morbidity based on current sickness in a population, estimated either at a particular time (point prevalence) or over a stated…

The end bulb.  

The neuron q.v. that releases the neurotransmitter into the synapse when stimulated by an impulse, postsynaptic neuron.  

The area on the proximal side of the synapse.