Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice, Volume 434Steven H. Woolf, Steven Jonas, Robert S. Lawrence Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1996 - 618 pages This is the only text organized by risk factors - the same as those your patients present in the clinical setting. This valuable book reviews the recommendations from the newly revised U.S. Task Force 'Guide to Clinical Preventive Services' and provides step-by-step instructions on how to put prevention into your practice. |
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Contents
Principles of Risk Assessment | 3 |
What to Ask About | 20 |
Where to Look for Preclinical Disease | 49 |
Laboratory Screening Tests | 85 |
section | 143 |
Counseling and Adjunctive Treatment | 163 |
Exercise | 176 |
Nutrition | 193 |
What to Do with Abnormal Screening Test Results | 354 |
Immunizations | 388 |
Chemoprophylaxis | 426 |
SelfExamination of the Breasts Skin and Testes | 437 |
What Not to Do and Why | 448 |
section three | 465 |
How to Organize a Practice for the Development and Delivery | 483 |
Providing Preventive Care in the Public Health Department | 505 |
Weight Management | 217 |
Injury Prevention | 233 |
Family Planning through Reversible Contraception | 258 |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases | 273 |
Alcohol and Other Drugs | 291 |
Exposure to Ultraviolet Light and the Prevention of Skin Disease | 303 |
Oral Health | 315 |
Functional Status and Mental Health | 335 |
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