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Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion

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Preventive medicine and health promotion promotes healthy behaviors, reduces health inequalities, and builds resilient health systems. It also contributes to empower individuals with health knowledge and to promotes inclusive and equitable quality education. Ultimately, these efforts contribute to the overarching goals of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, as well as fostering inclusive and sustainable development.

health and wellbeing

Description of Subtheme:

Through treatments including immunizations, screenings, lifestyle changes, and health education, this subtheme aims to promote health by preventing diseases. Researchers investigate the efficacy of preventative interventions, pinpoint risk factors, and create plans to promote healthy habits and enhance population health. This multidisciplinary field integrates epidemiology, behavioral science, biostatistics, environmental health, and health policy. Overall, the goal is to identify effective methods to prevent disease and promote health at both individual and population levels, thereby improving overall health outcomes and reducing healthcare costs

Research Action Plan:

  1. Identifying risk factors and developing interventions to prevent diseases especially the most common among the Lebanese population such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.
  2. Designing and evaluating programs to promote healthy behaviors such as smoking cessation, physical activity, and healthy eating.
  3. Researching vaccine efficacy, coverage, and strategies to prevent infectious diseases.
  4. Implementing and assessing community-based health programs that target diverse populations.
  5. Researching ways to prevent injuries and violence through community programs, safety regulations, and public awareness campaigns.

Prominent Research:

  1. “Congenital adhesion band: A rare case in a neonate”, Radiology Case Reports, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 499-502, ISSN 1930-0433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.10.076.
  2. “Pneumatocele-induced pneumothorax after COVID-19 infection in a 45-day-old infant”, Radiology Case Reports, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 737-740, ISSN 1930-0433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.11.033. 
  3. “Pericardial effusion complicated by umbilical vein catheter in a preterm infant with respiratory distress syndrome: A case report”, Radiology Case Reports, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 741-744, ISSN 1930-0433,
  4. “Concurrent presentation of Jeune syndrome features in a preterm infant born to a mother with gestational diabetes and hypertension: A rare case report”, Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 2024, ISSN 1355-1841, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnn.2024.04.003.