"preventive advice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to advice or guidance that is given in order to prevent or avoid potential problems or negative outcomes. Example: The doctor gave me some preventive advice to help lower my cholesterol levels, such as reducing my intake of fatty foods and exercising regularly.
Parental education and compliance with preventive advice concerning feeding may prevent the development of early childhood caries, allow remineralisation of any demineralised lesions and arrest the progress of cavitated lesions that may subsequently be treated restoratively or surgically.
Indeed one of the recommendations of the Health Select Committee report was that 'the Department of Health undertake research to determine the extent to which the provision of preventive advice is being given and its cost-effectiveness.' This emphasis on prevention is also seen in the Darzi report [ 9] and the Primary and Community Care Strategy [ 10].
Some of those companies, such as Michigan-based Autocam and Eden Foods, and Ohio-based Freshway Foods are objecting to all preventive advice, including counseling and education on birth control.
Based on assessment of risk via a questionnaire and/or blood test the intervention may comprise a brief discussion of risk factors and preventive advice or referral to intensive lifestyle intervention.
The aims are to assess health status and diagnose vibration-induced disorders at an early stage, to inform the workers on the potential risk associated with vibration exposure, to give preventive advice to employers and employees and to control whether preventive measures which have been taken, were successful.
When an expectant mother attends a general dentist for her own dental care, preventive advice concerning future infant and child oral health should be given by the dentist or by a member of the dental team to the expectant mother as well as providing her dental treatment.
For now, much of the preventive medical advice doled out by team doctors in Athens sounds familiar to the non-Olympian, as well: Wash your hands frequently; do not bite your fingernails or put your hands in your mouth; do not share cups or towels; drink lots of bottled water; and avoid buffets and fish, particularly raw fish.
Besides chronic disease management PNs provide an increasing proportion of preventive lifestyle advice.
African Americans are also less likely to receive prenatal preventive care advice regarding smoking cessation, alcohol use and breastfeeding [ 26].
In the Netherlands, practice nurses, under supervision of a general practitioner, are responsible for chronic disease management, including preventive lifestyle advice.
Studies in which letters with preventive care advice were sent to patients of general practices who had not already made appointments found a poor response [ 38, 39].
