Journal of Health Care and Prevention
Open Access

Journal of Healthcare and Prevention is a peer-reviewed, open access Journal which offers the original articles on healthcare, preventive health practice, teaching and research. It manipulates preventive medicine, new forms of healthcare, environmental factors analysis, health services provision, and health care maintenance and insurance studies. As a forum to exchange ideas and clarify ideas, the journal includes articles on projects that have a significant impact on health education.

The journal is an international disciplinary and a double peer viewed journal which details the researches from the healthcare sector to maintain or enhance the human health through the prevention, diagnosis, care, recovery or cure of disorders,  as well as other physical and mental impairments. It also underlines the factors of preventive health care which focuses on disease prevention to reduce disease burden and associated risk factors.

The Journal aims to publish the most reliable and complete source of information on discoveries and current developments in the form of research articles, review articles, case reports and short communication. All the articles are peer reviewed and published under the guidance of our Editorial Board members by providing free access to the well-researched information to the readers.

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Journal Highlight

Chronic Disease:

Chronic disease is a long-term, lasting disease. Chronic illnesses may impede the independence and health of disabled people, as they may create more limitations on activity. Chronic diseases are more prevalent with age. The main chronic conditions include arthritis, heart and stroke disease, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, obesity, and oral health issues. The best news is that chronic diseases can be prevented or controlled by (1) regular physical participation, (2) healthy eating, (3) not smoking, and (4) preventing excessive drinking.

Family Medicine Practice:

Family practice is an essential health care division of primary care which provides the individual and family with continuous and comprehensive care across all ages, sexes, diseases and corporal parts. Community doctors are also first-aid doctors. It is based in the context of family and community on the knowledge of the patient and underlines disease prevention and promotion of health. The goal of family medicine is to provide individual personal and comprehensive and ongoing treatment within the family and society, according to the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). The values underlying this practice are commonly referred to as primary care ethics.

Mental Health care:

Emotional illnesses (or mental disorders) are the condition that affects the emotions, feelings, moods and behavior. These can be sporadic or persistent (chronic). This will also affect the ability of communication and interaction as they relate to the emotional interference. Depression is a common mental disorder and women are more prone to them rather than men. Helping such patients to adopt healthy lifestyles early on is a key to a long and healthy life.

Women Healthcare:

Women's health refers to the medical field that focuses on treating and diagnosing disorders and diseases that affect the physical and emotional well-being of women. The health of women covers a wide variety of specialties and areas of focus including: Birth control, STI and gynecology sexually transmitted diseases, Breast, ovarian and other cancers of women, Mammograms, Hormone treatment and menopause, Osteoporosis, Pregnancy and childbirth, Sexual santé, Heart and women's, Benign conditions that affect women's reproductive organs work.

Nursing care:

Nursing in general incorporates the normal care of individuals from infant to old age. Importance of nursing is crucial for individuals who are in desperate need of care. Introducing nursing in the healthcare triggers the need for quality healthcare for the patients to improve their health, prevent and manage their current level of health form. Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people.

Sports Medicine care:

Sports medicine healthcare providers do work with professional athletes. Sports medicine is not a medical specialty in itself. Sports medicine focuses on helping people improve their athletic performance, recover from injury and prevent future injuries. It is a fast-growing health care field, because health workers who specialize in sports medicine help all kinds of people, not just athletes. Sports medicine specialists treat a wide range of physical conditions, including acute traumas such as fractures, sprains, strains, and dislocations.

Nutrition care:

Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. The link between good nutrition and healthy weight, reduced chronic disease risk, and overall health is too important to ignore chronic diseases. Nutrition is one of the most important contributors to human health. In addition to managing weight, blood pressure and cholesterol, a healthy diet can help prevent and manage of a number of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers.

Palliative care:

Palliative care is appropriating at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and can be provided together with curative treatment. The goal is to progress quality of life for both the patient and the family. Most of the states are facing health transitions, with a quickly rising burden of chronic and undying ailments. Patients may receive palliative care in the hospital, an outpatient clinic, a long-term care facility, or at home under the direction of a physician.

Gerontology:

Gerontologist is the study of the problems that elderly individuals might encounter and the aging process. Gerontology nursing is multidisciplinary and is concerned with physical, mental, and social aspects and implications of aging. Geriatrics is a medical specialty focused on treatment and care of older persons. These specialists give hospice care and palliative nursing to them. The scope of the care has changed to include not just the medical needs, but also the psychological and social needs of seniors.

Pediatric care:

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the physical, mental and social health of infants, children and adolescents. Pediatricians are medical doctors who specialize in the field of Pediatrics. Pediatric care encloses a wide range of healthcare services extending from prevention to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic diseases in children from birth to young adulthood. Presently the subject contains several sub disciplines including general aspects of pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, hematology, nephrology,and prenatal ethical considerations etc.

Gynecology:

A branch of medicine that specializes in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the female reproductive organs. It also specializes in other women's health issues, such as menopause, hormone problems, contraception (birth control), and infertility. Both Obstetrics and Gynecology are medical specialties that focus on two different perspective of the female reproductive system. Obstetrics spotlights the care of the pregnant women, the unborn baby, labor, and delivery and following childbirth. Together, Gynecology focuses on all other aspects of a woman’s reproductive health from the onset of puberty through menopause and beyond.

Optometry:

Optometry is a health care profession that includes analyzing the eyes and pertinent visual frameworks for imperfections or abnormalities just as the revision of refractive mistake with glasses or contact focal points and treatment of eye infections. Optometrists are the primary healthcare practitioners of the eye and visual system who provide comprehensive eye and vision care, which includes refraction and dispensing, detection/diagnosis and management of disease in the eye, and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system.

Physical Therapy:

Physical therapists are health care professionals who diagnose and provide care for those with medical ailments or health-related issues that limit movement or abilities in everyday activities. Physical therapy helps people of all ages who have medical conditions, illnesses or injuries that limit their regular ability to move and function. If physical therapy helps you eliminate pain or heal from an injury, surgery may not be needed. As part of an overall diabetes management plan, exercise can help effectively control blood sugar. For pulmonary problems, physical therapy can improve quality of life through strengthening, conditioning and breathing exercises, and help patients clear fluid in the lungs.

Surgical care:

Emergency and essential surgical care covers those interventions that are critical for specific conditions in preventing premature death and disability. Provide operative procedures (surgeries) for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. The surgical experience can be segregated into three phases: (1) preopera- tive, (2) intraoperative, and (3) postoperative. Effective communication and teamwork are foundational to improving safety in surgical care. Implementing evidence-based guidelines is fundamental to improving safety in surgical care. You can also improve surgical care safety by applying the two safer healthcare now Infection Prevention and Control Getting Started Kits.

Population Health:

Population health is defined as a group of individuals' health outcomes including their distribution within the group. For policy-makers these groups' health results are relevant in both the public and private sectors. People's health is not just a population's overall health but also includes the distribution of health. Public health and the population health share the concepts when the distribution of health is interpreted and for those who define public health in this sector, they must be remember that there is a little difference from the population health framework.