| behavioral immunization | Programs designed to inoculate people against adverse health habits by exposing them to mild versions of persuasive communications that try to engage them in a poor health practice and giving them techniques that they can use to respond effectively to these efforts.
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| comprehensive intervention model | A model that pools and coordinates the medical and psychological expertise in a well-defined area of medical practice so as to make all available technology and expertise available to a patient; the pain management program is one example of a comprehensive intervention model.
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| cost containment | The effort to reduce or hold down health care costs.
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| cost effectiveness | The formal evaluation of the effectiveness of an intervention relative to its cost and the cost of alternative interventions.
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| evidence-based medicine | The conscientious, explicit, judicious use of the best scientific medicine for making decisions about the care of individual patients.
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| treatment effectiveness | Formal documentation of the success of an intervention.
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