Get regular medical and dental exams
Regular checks are separate from the visit of any other doctor for illness or injury. In addition to physical exams, these visits focus on preventive care, such as:
- Sort tests, which are medical examinations to check the diseases early when it can be easier to treat.
- Services, such as vaccines, which improve your health, preventing diseases and other health problems.
- Dental cleaning.
- Education and counseling to help you make documented health decisions.
Get to know your family’s health history
Family Health History is a record of diseases and health conditions in your family. You and your family members share genes. You may also have common behaviors, such as what you do for physical activity and what you like to eat. You can live in the same area and get in touch with similar harmful things in the environment. Family history includes all these factors, any of which may affect your health.
If you have a family history of chronic diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes or osteoporosis, you are more likely to take this disease yourself.
You cannot change your genes, but you can change unhealthy behaviors that can cause chronic diseases – such as smoking, malnutrition, physical inactivity or excessive alcohol consumption. If you have a family history history, you may have the most to win these lifestyle changes and from preventive care practices, such as regular exams, vaccinations and sorting tests.
Talk to your family. List the names of close relatives on both sides of your family – parents, brothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces and nieces. Include information on important medical conditions, causes of death, age diagnosis, age at death and ethnic background.
Your doctor may help you take measures to prevent certain health conditions and chronic diseases – or catch them early when it is easier to cure.
Learn more about the importance of action in your family’s health history.
Talk to your family then your doctor
You can use my family portrait to keep track of your information. Make sure you regularly update this information and share what you have learned with your family and your doctor.
Stay up -to -date on screenings of cancer
Cancer control means controlling your body for cancer before you have symptoms. Taking sorting tests can regularly find breast cancers, cervical and colon (Coll) when treatment is likely to work better. Examination of lung cancer is recommended for some people who are at high risk. Learn more about viewing tests.
Views of Breast Cancer
Controlling breast cancer can help find breast cancer early when it is easier to treat. Talk to your doctor about which breast cancer tests are suitable for you and when you have to have them. Learn more about breast cancer testing.
Pre -bodily control of cervical cancer
The PAP test can find abnormal cells in the cervix that can be converted into cancer. It can also find cervical cancer early when the probability of treatment is high. The HPV test searches for the virus (human papillary) that can cause these cell changes. Learn more about cervical cancer testing.
Colon Cancer Control (Colon)
Colon cancer almost always develops from precancerous polyps (abnormal increases) in the colon or rectum. Sorting tests can find precancerous polyps so that they can be removed before turning into cancer. Sorting tests can also find colon cancer early when the treatment works best. Learn more about control over colon cancer.
Lung cancer control
An annual test of low -dose lung cancer is calculated for people aged 50 to 80 years, have a historical heavy smoking and now smoke or have been leaving for the last 15 years. Learn more about lung cancer testing.
Vaccinate
Vaccination is one of the safest and most convenient ways to protect your health. Vaccines offer protection in different ways, but everyone helps your body remember how to combat a particular infection in the future. It usually takes a few weeks after vaccination for the body to create this protection.
Vaccination during childhood is essential because it helps to provide immunity before children are exposed to potentially life -threatening diseases. Vaccines are checked to ensure that it is safe and effective for children to receive recommended ages.
Adults must maintain their vaccinations up -to -date because childhood immunity can be worn over time. You are also at risk of different diseases as an adult.
