"preventative service" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to services or actions taken to prevent something from happening or to stop something from getting worse. Example: The government is offering free preventative services, such as routine check-ups and vaccinations, to help improve the overall health of its citizens.
In addition, time constraints often prevent physicians from following through with preventative service recommendations such as vaccine counselling.
Contraception counseling and provision is an essential preventative service.
After being told to download a programme that handed over remote control of their computer so the caller could install "fixes", the PC users were told of the £185 charge for subscription to "the preventative service".
As manufacturers of these devices embed and enable IoT, specialty insurance carriers offering extended warranty protection on these products will also offer predictive and preventative service prior to product breakdown or component failure.
IOM is recommending that those services be included as a preventative service, which under the Affordable Care Act would mean all new health plans would have to cover the service with no co-pays or cost sharing.
Table 3 shows the prevalence of screening and preventative service use among cancer survivors and controls.
There is increasing evidence about the positive cost benefits of a range of preventative services from falls prevention and telecare to home improvement agencies.
Gail McKenzie is preventative services project manager.
Even with cost-sharing on things other than preventative services, such plans won't be cheap.
If we were to fund more preventative services [that] would be more cost-effective.
The depletion of community-based preventative services, early intervention and voluntary-sector services leaves ours as the only resource.
