PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE PREVENTION FROM DISCOVERY TO APPLICATION
PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE PREVENTION FROM DISCOVERY TO APPLICATION
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10.1007/bf01298837
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1994-01-01
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WYNDER, EL
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WYNDER, EL
本文回顾了众所周知的证据表明，我们今天的许多疾病都与童年时期开始的生活方式有关。 虽然对疾病的机械理解具有明显的价值，但医学史表明，在了解疾病的发病机制之前很久就可以采取预防措施。 对普通人来说，预防医学的最大障碍是永生的幻想，我们每个人都不会为了未来的潜在利益而牺牲一些令人愉快的东西，对卫生专业人员来说，预防医学在经济上不如治疗实践。 医院、医生、家长和学校都可以为促进健康的生活方式做出贡献。 我们在此特别强调早期全面的学校健康教育，并强烈建议这种教育工作必须与其他科目的教学相提并论，因为良好的健康习惯对儿童的身心发展有很大的影响，从而有助于建设一个更有成效的未来社会。
This paper reviews the well-known evidence that many of our diseases today relate to lifestyle practices that have their beginning in childhood. While mechanistic understanding of a disease is of obvious value, the history of medicine has shown that preventive measures can be applied long before the pathogenesis of a disease is understood. The greatest obstacle to preventive medicine for the average person is the illusion of immortality and that each of us does not readily make a sacrifice of something pleasurable for a potential benefit in the future, and that for health professionals preventive medicine is not as economically rewarding as therapeutic practice. Hospitals, physicians, parents, and schools can all contribute to enhancing healthy lifestyle practices. We place here particular emphasis on early comprehensive school health education and strongly suggest that such educational efforts must be on par with the teaching of other subjects since good healthy habits strongly affect both children's physical and mental development and thus contribute to a more productive future society.