Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine helps you make healthier choices when it comes to your lifestyle and charge up your immunity to avoid infections. Family physicians Irelis Rodriguez Castro, MD; Alireza Ebneshahidi, MD; and their team at NextHealth Care in Debary, Florida, provide preventive screenings, vaccines, and health coaching to keep you feeling your best and functioning at any age. Call NextHealth Care or schedule an appointment online for expert preventive care today.

What’s the purpose of preventive medicine?

Preventive medicine serves to keep you healthy, not treat a current illness or injury. By engaging in preventive care over the course of your lifetime, you may be able to extend your life expectancy and avoid limiting chronic illnesses that affect your quality of life. 

While the services within preventive care vary, staying up to date on the services you need and following your physician’s recommendations may reduce your risk for:

• Prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• High triglycerides
• Certain cancers
• Certain infections
• Chronic pain
• Osteoarthritis

The team at NextHealth Care considers your family medical history, personal medical history, and relevant risk factors so they can provide personalized health and wellness recommendations to follow in your everyday life. 

Which services does preventive medicine include?

Preventive medicine includes a variety of services that protect you from specific illnesses or improve your health and function in a more general way. With preventive care and personalized recommendations, you can optimize your own lifestyle and mitigate your risk for various illnesses. 

You can trust the team at NextHealth Care to provide:

Vaccinations

Vaccinations immunize you against specific viral or bacterial infections by introducing them to your immune system in safe forms ahead of time. They can prevent you from getting sick or reduce your risk of severe illness and complications. 

Screening tests

Screening tests check you for specific diseases in their early stages based on your risk. Detecting cancer and other diseases early via screening leads to simpler and often more successful treatment. 

Health education and counseling

During routine visits like annual physicals, the team at NextHealth Care teaches you about your health and the best practices for maintaining it. 

Should I bring anything to a preventive medicine visit?

You should bring some items and information to your next preventive medicine visit at NextHealth Care. If you have an annual exam coming up or any other preventive service, you should bring:

• Your ID card
• Your medical insurance information
• The contact information of any other physicians or specialists you’ve recently seen
• Any recent medical test results
• A list of your current medications
• Vaccine records

Not sure which services you need? The team at NextHealth Care can advise you on what you need and when you need it. 

Call NextHealth Care or schedule an appointment online right away for your next preventive care visit.