Preventative Care

What is preventive care?

Preventive care is about avoiding disease and poor health. Working with the team at Gulf Coast Medical Clinic, you can take advantage of all the ways to reduce your risk of getting sick.

Preventive care has significant advantages. If you can avoid being sick, you can also avoid the pain and other symptoms that illnesses cause. You won’t miss work or be unable to participate in the activities you love.

You won’t have the problem of trying to manage life when you feel unwell or the inconvenience of medical visits, tests, and treatments. Preventive care can also save you money on medical bills. 

How does preventive care work?

The Gulf Coast Medical Clinic team uses a range of measures in the practice of preventive care. First, they provide you with the knowledge you need to make the best choices for your health.

Many of the conditions that cause ill health, disability, and early death are preventable, including:

• Obesity
• High cholesterol
• Type 2 diabetes
• Some cancers
• Heart disease
• Stroke
• Hypertension

The Gulf Coast Medical Clinic team can help you make the changes that prevent these types of illnesses. 

What changes do I need to make to prevent ill health?

You may well know that the way you lead your life can have a significant impact on your health. There’s no shortage of messages about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and with good reason.

Looking after your mind and body is the best way to help prevent disease, so it makes sense to look at how you can improve your lifestyle with measures such as losing weight, eating a healthy diet, getting more exercise, and quitting bad habits like smoking.

As primary care specialists, the Gulf Coast Medical Clinic team specializes in treating patients who have conditions like:

• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Chronic lung disease
• Arthritis
• Gastrointestinal disease

They can help prevent these types of diseases from affecting your life, as well as help you manage such conditions if they do develop. 

What other ways does preventive care help with my health?

There are several other ways the Gulf Coast Medical Clinic team’s preventive care helps keep you healthy.

Immunizations

Immunizations prepare your body for dealing with a range of serious and deadly diseases. Most immunizations occur in childhood, but even if you’ve missed some, the Gulf Coast Medical Clinic team can get you back up to date as an adult.

Screening tests

There are many kinds of screening tests available to identify the earliest stages of disease before you notice any symptoms. The sooner you start treatment, the less these conditions are going to affect your life. Important tests the team at Gulf Coast Medical Clinic carries out include blood sugar tests for diabetes, cholesterol tests, and blood pressure screenings.

Find out how preventive care can improve your health and well-being by calling Gulf Coast Medical Clinic today or book an appointment online.