Preventive medicine
What is preventive medicine?
The aim of modern medicine is not simply to treat illnesses once they have become manifest, but ideally to prevent them from developing or to delay their onset, in order to improve quality of life and ensure better health, even in later life. As the saying goes, prevention is the best cure.
There are three types of prevention:
Primary prevention aims to preserve health or prevent disease. It intervenes before damage, illness or irregular behaviour starts to occur and looks for the causes and risk factors that could lead to it.
Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and treating diseases. This approach aims to ensure that an illness does not worsen or become chronic.
Tertiary prevention aims to slow the progression of existing diseases or to prevent complications.
Primary prevention is of vital importance for a number of reasons:
This is often more effective and less costly than treating it once it has appeared.
Our quality of life has a decisive influence on our well-being. A central aspect of this quality of life is health, which we want to promote and maintain for as long as possible.
Adopting healthy, positive lifestyle habits to maintain physical and mental health, well-being and independence over the years.
Examples of primary prevention
We offer vaccination campaigns to protect your health and that of those around you. Our teams will guide you through a preventive program tailored to your needs.
Encouraging people to engage in regular physical activity can prevent a large number of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.
We support you in your efforts to stop smoking with personalized follow-up and tailored advice. Take back control of your health with our expert support.
Benefit from tailor-made dietary support to improve your well-being and adopt a diet adapted to your needs. Our specialists will guide you towards healthy, balanced choices.
of patients have one or more risk factors or illnesses following a check-up.
The following risk factors have been identified: overweight or obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, an unhealthy diet, smoking, prediabetes and diabetes, high blood pressure and lipid metabolism disorders. The early detection of cancer mainly involved skin cancer, prostate cancer and gynaecological cancers.
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