Preventive Medicine Subspecialties:
Aerospace Medicine:
Aerospace Medicine is also called Aviation or Flight Medicine. It is a preventative medicine in which the patients are aircrews, pilots or people involved in spaceflight. This is a specialty division of medicine. It tries to prevent conditions from developing within this discipline that will affect the health and safety of the patients.
Medical Toxicology:
Medical Toxicology or Clinical toxicology is a specific specialty of medicine. This specialty is practiced by Toxicologists, although a toxicologist expertise is often used in pediatrics, occupational medicine and emergency medicine. A toxicological screen is one of the central laboratory tests used within this discipline.
Occupational Medicine:
Is the specialty branch of medicine that is most active the field of Occupational Health. The main role is the provision of health advice to individuals and organizations to make sure the highest standards of health and safety at work can be maintained. These doctors have a wide knowledge of clinical medicine and be competent in numerous important areas.
Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine:
This refers to various measure taken to prevent disease, rather than treating or curing them. This is the opposite of curative and palliative medicine. Preventative Medicine is largely based on education.
Public Health and General Preventive Medicine:
This is a medical health specialty that deals with the medical aspects of public health practice. It is described as the art and science of improving community health through organized efforts within a society as a whole. There are numerous health professionals and organizations that are needed to be successful in this area.
Sports Medicine Preventive :
This area of health specialty services applies medical and scientific knowledge to lessen, recognize, care for and rehabilitate injuries that are related to sport. This includes exercises and recreational activities. A Certified Athletic Trainer is an example of a health professional the specializes in the health care of physical activity. They use various methods of Sports Medicine to care and prevent athletic injury.
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine:
Hyperbaric Medicine is also referred to as hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It's the medical use of oxygen at a higher level than atmospheric pressure in general. One of the therapeutic principles behind this medicine is that the increase pressure is of therapeutic value when HBOT is used in treating decompressions sickness or air embolism. Another is that exposure to hyperbaric oxygen mobilizes stem cells from the bone marrow by a nitric oxide.