Clinical health promotion and family physicians: a Canadian perspective |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;2. Department of Urology, William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, Michigan;1. Department of Urology, Memorial Rydygier Hospital, Kraków, Poland;2. Department of General and Oncological Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus Hospital, Toruń, Poland;3. Department of General and Oncologic Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland;1. The Guo China-US Photonics Laboratory, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China;2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Fayoum, Fayoum 63514, Egypt;3. Lightwave Communications Research Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi 67100, Greece;4. The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA |
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Many attempts have been made recently in North America to increase the activities of physicians in clinical prevention and health promotion. This article reviews: (1) the development of guidelines by both the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; (2) attempts at dissemination and implementation; (3) definitions of health promotion concepts, including clinical health promotion; (4) factors facilitating and limiting the incorporation of clinical prevention and health promotion into family practice; and (5) principles of learning and behavior change which can assist family physicians to practise clinical health promotion. Family physicians are best advised to focus on facilitating behavior change with their own patients, utilizing a triage strategy to determine which patients to target. |
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