title: Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department.
abstract: This article provides an overview of health promotion and disease and injury prevention concepts. It provides an emergency medicine perspective and reviews approaches that can be used in the emergency department. It discusses examples of innovative emergency medicine-based preventive activities including prevention in the prehospital setting. This article ends with a discussion of the importance of a system approach to prevention and suggests a role for a preventionist as a new member of the emergency medicine team.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Akron City Hospital, Akron, OH 44309-2090, USA. stifflek@summa-health.org
authors.forename: Kirk A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Stiffler
authors.forename: Lowell W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Gerson
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*