Preventive medicine encompasses both the care of individual patients, and public health practice, and as is evident in the name, focuses on the prevention of disease rather than treatment, per se. The fields of preventive medicine and public health share the objectives of promoting general health, preventing specific dis- eases, and applying the concepts and techniques of epidemiology toward these goals. While preventive medicine seeks to enhance the lives of individuals by help- ing them improve their own health, public health attempts to promote health in populations through the application of organized community efforts. Although preventive medicine and public health.
