Disease Prevention

Disease prevention is not necessarily as difficult as you may think! All that is required is a little motivation, discipline and adherence to a few basic rules.

The physicians at AZP are dedicated to helping members to achieve a level of health that will allow all of the complex and interrelated systems in your body to become stronger and healthier which in turn will contribute to the prevention of disease.

Disease has a much more difficult time developing within a body that is properly nourished, is under low stress, is sufficiently active, exercised and well rested. The human body was designed to be healthy and it will typically remain healthy provided it receives everything it requires for healthy functioning.

Think of your car for a moment. Would you put low quality gasoline in it’s tank? Would you keep the same old oil in the engine year after year? Would you ignore that red light on the dash when it comes on? For most of us the answers would be no because we recognize that the performance and reliability of our car is dependent upon good quality gasoline, clean oil and regular maintenance.

The human body is very similar is this regard. The quality of the food and liquid we consume combined with our ability to efficiently eliminate waste material will have a direct impact upon our personal performance and reliability.

This is the foundation upon which most aspects of disease prevention is built. The problem is that the so called healthcare system in the United States does not address prevention at all.

The current dominant medical and insurance system in the United States cannot be considered true “health” care because it is a reactive system that is designed to provide care only after you have a problem or get ill. This is technically a “disease” care system. This is a system that is very effective for emergency situations and crisis management. This is also a system that is extraordinarily profitable and rewarding for the pharmaceutical and medical insurance industries.

These industries do not promote health and prevention strategies because frankly, there is not much money to be made from a healthy population. Healthy people do not need drugs and healthy people typically have much lower insurance premiums.

Our current medical system is broken and in crisis, and any plans to fix this broken system will have little chance to succeed if it continues to be built upon a foundation of reactive, “disease” care medical models.

Reactive, disease based care is valuable and will always be necessary, especially for emergency situations and crisis management. However, the most cost effective and practical form of healthcare is one that is based upon a proactive and prevention oriented healthcare delivery model.

PROactive HEALTHcare as delivered at Arizona Prohealth takes action to keep people healthy by preventing disease and by minimizing the complications of disease and illness if they occur.

Disease prevention is achieved by focusing upon three areas:

1. Primary Prevention
2. Secondary Prevention
3. Tertiary Prevention

Primary prevention involves educating people about medical and wellness methods and techniques to reduce risk factors that result in illness and disease, while promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Secondary prevention utilizes a variety of assessment and screening tools through consultations, forms and laboratory tests to assist in identifying your personal risk factors, health status and diagnosis. This information allows us to develop a prevention program personalized just for you so that your health concerns can effectively be addressed and corrected before serious complications are allowed to develop.

Tertiary prevention involves the proactive management and treatment of health conditions once they are identified through the integration of naturopathic, homeopathic and conventional medical treatments and wellness services.

Dr. Hampton and Dr. Whitsell are highly skilled and experienced in preventative medicine and are dedicated to help you, your family and business team to effectively avoid illness and disease while helping you to improve your health and productivity.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

Give us a call at 480-831-7970 or click on “Contact Us” and send us a note.