Dr. Alan Bruce Bloch M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
1639 Colebrook Circle Decatur GA, 30033About
Alan Bloch is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Decatur, GA. Bloch specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Bloch participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
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Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Directly observed therapy and tuberculosis treatment completion. Bloch re: Bayer et al.
- Completion of tuberculosis therapy for patients reported in the United States in 1993.
- The first oral rotavirus vaccine, 1998-1999: estimates of uptake from the National Immunization Survey.
- Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis in a hospital unit for HIV-infected patients.
- Estimating HIV levels and trends among patients of tuberculosis clinics.
- An outbreak of tuberculosis in rural Delaware.
- In Memoriam: Sandy Ford (1950–2015).
- Mycobacterial disease: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis in Early County, 1982.
- Outbreaks of group A streptococcal abscesses following diphtheria-tetanus toxoid-pertussis vaccination.
- Congenital tuberculosis.
- Progress in measles elimination.
- Drug resistance among tuberculosis patients, New York City, 1991 and 1992.
- Tracking tuberculosis.
- Multiple-antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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