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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preventive medicine
noun
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▪ He says physicians should be well-trained in standard medical care and also grounded in preventive medicine and healing alternatives.
▪ It was hardly surprising that preventive medicine, and state medicine in particular, refused to give unconditional support to eugenics.
▪ Laughter and fun should also be on your preventive medicine shelf.
▪ Such apathy is indicative of the generally low emphasis and under-investment in health education and preventive medicine in Britain.
▪ The appointment of John Simon as first Medical Officer heralded the replacement of the grandiose principles of sanitary engineering by preventive medicine.
▪ There exists no preventive medicine for the pain of feeling excluded or underappreciated.
▪ We have received clear evidence from opticians in our constituencies that the imposition of charges runs contrary to the concept of preventive medicine.
WordNet
preventive medicine

n. the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease; "the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine"

Wikipedia
Preventive Medicine (journal)

Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier since 1972. It covers all aspects of preventive medicine and public health. The editor-in-chief is Eduardo L. Franco ( McGill University). The founding editor was Ernst Wynder.

Usage examples of "preventive medicine".

A stunning decline in life expectancy, increasing infant mortality, rampant epidemic disease, subminimal medical standards and ignorance of preventive medicine all work to raise the threshold at which scepticism is triggered in an increasingly desperate population.

The irrationality of it all never ceased to appall me, for it did not seem to occur to those in power that there is such a thing as preventive medicine, and it is, after all, the only way to halt a lethal disease.

Department of Health and Human Services, which the Air Force has implemented to organize and guide the preventive medicine efforts of medical providers.

Bacot, Entomologist to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, in the British Medical Journal of September 30, 1916, the writer records the results of experiments with various reputedly insecticidal substances, but mainly with Cytisine, the alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the Gorse and Laburnum, the physiological properties of which resemble those of Nicotine.

Von Billmann had had a concentrated course in first aid and preventive medicine since he was to take over as doctor if anything happened to Gribardsun.

These people were desperately in need of even the most basic health care, and Meredith was a whiz at preventive medicine.

You probably don't know it, but it has been privately reported in the inner circle of the University that old Fletcher was to leave the bulk of his fortune to found a great school of preventive medicine, and that the only proviso was that his nephew should be dean of the school.