Chapter 11.Preventive Interventions
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In traditional medicine, if a patient goes to a physician for treatment of a rat bite, the physician cleans the bite, dresses it, gives antibiotics, and administers a tetanus shot. The physician who is also practicing public health would give our imaginary patient the same treatment but would go a step further; he or she would arrange for someone to go into the patient’s community and set rattraps. Accordingly, in this chapter, I discuss principally psychiatric prevention interventions and psychiatric public health for individuals and populations.
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