What is Preventative Care?

Most Americans are not utilizing preventative care, in fact only 8% of people surveyed are getting the highly recommended preventive services with the greatest potential for improving health.

Benefits of receiving preventive health care include significantly reducing your chances of developing preventable illnesses or injuries, reducing healthcare costs and aiding in early detection of life threatening injuries and illnesses including cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, unintentional injuries, diabetes, and certain infectious diseases.

So, what is preventative care in the first place?

Preventative healthcare, or Prophylaxis, consists of measures take for disease, injury, and illness prevention. Injury and disease prevention rely on anticipatory actions that can help people avoid injury and illness or decrease the severity of symptoms in an occurance.

According to the Journal of American Medical Association, a 2004 study showed that about half of all deaths in the United States in 2000 were due to preventable behaviors and exposures. Leading causes included cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, unintentional injuries, diabetes, and certain infectious diseases.

Getting preventative care can not only significantly reduce your chances of developing preventable illness or injuries, but it reduces healthcare costs and aids with early detection of life threatening injuries and illnesses.

Preventative care was at the forefront of our founder’s mind when selecting the services that Salt Earth would offer. All of our services focus on different areas of preventative care. Additionally, our services are all holistic, natural, and drug free, so they can be utilized together or with your own preventative care methods.