Guide to Health Maintenance and Disease Prevention: What You Need to Know. Why You Should Ask Your Doctor

Ijindah Marcus Uriri

Jun 2009 · Xlibris Corporation

Tentang eBook ini

Finally, this is the book you've been waiting for. Health maintenance and disease prevention provides a concise up to date information on the management of certain chronic medical conditions, health promotion and disease prevention. It empowers individuals in several ways to be more proactive about their health. The ultimate goal is maintaining a good quality of life. Areas of emphasis featured in this book include:

-preventive health services from infancy to adulthood
-management and prevention of certain chronic medical conditions
-Lifestyles and behavior modifications
-preconception care and pregnancy related health conditions
-prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
-management of specific common health conditions in the older adult
-precautions about medication use.


It is my belief that this guide will be a good resource to achieving and maintaining a good quality of life.

Tentang pengarang

Dr. Uriri completed his medical education at the Medical Academy, higher medical institute, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1989. He proceeded to Tulane school of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana from 1997 to 1999 where he completed two master's degrees in Public Health specializing in Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine. He later proceeded to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, where he completed his residency training in Family Medicine in 2003. He is currently practicing at Barkasdale Airforce Base, Shreveport Louisiana and part time at Christus Schumpart First Care Bossier Family Practice. Dr. Uriri is married with four children.