3P4Care® Avondale Preventive Services
What is Preventive Care?
Preventive care aims to protect and maintain good health and well-being by preventing disability, disease, and premature death. Every appointment at 3P4Care Avondale is centred on preventive care.
Dr Chu-Kwan Augustine Wong and the team understand your conditions as your primary care provider and can provide personalised advice and guidance.
How Did Preventive Services Come About?
The concept of prevention arose by accident from the political and social turmoils of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, when intellectuals and activists urged capitalists to provide better welfare for their employed workers out of good conscience. As a result, many medical practitioners were hired by industrialists to conduct periodic examinations on their employees. The US National Health Council coined the phrase “Have a health examination on your birthday” in 1923, launching the concept of annual wellness examinations.
How Does Preventive Care Improve Health?
Preventive medicine extends your life by allowing your primary care doctor to detect diseases or potential health problems early when they are easier to treat. Early treatment of a health condition may also help prevent disease progression to more severe forms of illness.
Annual preventive care appointments can also save money on overall healthcare costs because health problems are easier to treat when identified early. Maintaining a regular preventive care schedule improves your overall health by lowering your risk of developing various chronic diseases.
Why do an Annual Health Examination?
3P4Care Avondale supports annual clinical examinations for the following reasons:
- In the fragmented healthcare system of the US, where health insurance coverage frequently changes, a patient attending the annual examination will solidify the doctor-patient relationship.
- To be eligible for health insurance, you may need to undergo annual examinations.
- An annual health examination may also satisfy the requirements posed by your employer.
What is Included in the Annual Health Examination?
We will conduct medical history-taking and perform a physical examination to identify risk factors. In addition, we will perform basic laboratory tests, treatments, and counselling as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force based on your age and gender. If your preventive care evaluation determines you need a specialist, we will make the appropriate referrals and coordinate your care among your specialist providers as needed.
Schedule your annual wellness examination or preventive care consultation by phone today