Preventive medicine

Preventive medicine

       Here's a decent wiki link on the subject:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_medicine

            Now the often other way to approach medicine is corrective medicine. Now I do not have a link on this subject though there are many out there, I am confident.

            This idea includes preventive and corrective dentistry, too. 

             Bottom line: At the most fundamental level, clean water, waste water treatment, food, and being as clean as one can be is key to practicing preventive medicine.  The recent decades of statistics, and even the recent Colorado floods, provide good examples.