Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America; Residency Program in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America; Employee Health and Wellness Service, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America; Division of Nursing Science, Rutgers University, School of Nursing, Newark, NJ, United States of America.
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America; Residency Program in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America.
Prev Med. 2021 Feb;143:106286. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106286. Epub 2020 Oct 14.
The pandemonium from the 2020 pandemic calls for a greater emphasis on prevention, public health and population health. Yet the role of preventive medicine specialists, ideally qualified to lead this charge, remains difficult to situate within the houses of medicine and public health. To overcome this challenge to its identity and evolve to better tackle novel and on-going public health and population health problems, the authors propose that the specialty of preventive medicine should assert 3 core functions within preventive care; expand and modernize its knowledge base; and enhance its residency training accordingly. The authors also propose 10 essential services, not otherwise systematically provided by other specialties, that the preventive medicine specialty can optimally fulfill as its unique contributions within medicine and public health.
2020 年大流行引发的混乱呼吁更加重视预防、公共卫生和人口健康。然而,理想上有资格领导这一工作的预防医学专家的作用在医学和公共卫生领域仍然难以确定。为了克服这一对其身份的挑战,并发展壮大以更好地应对新出现的和持续存在的公共卫生和人口健康问题,作者建议预防医学专业在预防保健中应确立 3 项核心功能;扩大和更新其知识库;并相应地加强住院医师培训。作者还提出了 10 项基本服务,这些服务不是其他专业系统提供的,预防医学专业可以作为其在医学和公共卫生领域的独特贡献来最优地满足这些服务。