Health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice
By: [edited by] Steven H. Woolf, Steven Jonas, Evonne Kaplan-Liss.
Contributors: Woolf, Steven H.; Jonas, Steven.; Kaplan-Liss, Evonne.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780781775991
Subjects: Health Promotion; Preventive Medicine; Preventive Health Services; United States
Description: Based on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's newly revised Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, this thoroughly updated handbook offers physicians practical suggestions for risk assessment, disease prevention, and health promotion. Chapters examine health behaviors and risk factors such as exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression and provide advice on gathering information from the patient, ordering screening tests, prescribing appropriate treatments, and designing a personalized health maintenance plan. This edition includes new chapters on electronic medical records and reimbursement for clinical preventive services and updated patient resource materials and instructions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Principles of risk assessment / Steven H. Woolf; title: The history : what to ask about / Alex H. Krist, Janelle Guirguis-Blake, and Steven H. Woolf; title: The physical examination : where to look for preclinical disease / Alex Krist ... [et al.]; title: Laboratory screening tests / Janelle Guirguis-Blake, Alex Krist, and Steven Woolf; title: Introduction to the principles of health behavior change / Russell E. Glasgow and Michael G. Goldstein; title: Regular exercise / Steven Jonas; title: Nutrition / Roger A. Shewmake; title: Weight management / Steven Jonas and Kavitha Bhat Schelbert; title: Tobacco use / Stephen F. Rothemich; title: Substance use screening, assessment, and treatment; title: Randall T. Brown and Michael F. Fleming; title: Family planning through reversible contraception / Karen Feisullin and Carolyn Westhoff; title: Sexually transmitted infections / Charles Kodner; title: Depression, mood disorders, and cognitive impairment / Daniel E. Ford; title: Self-examination of the breasts, testes, and skin / Steven H. Woolf; title: Chemoprophylaxis / Linda S. Kinsinger, Michael Pignone, and Heidi Nelson; title: Immunizations / Robert M. Wolfe; title: Health promotion and disease prevention in children and adolescents / Virginia A. Moyer and Laura E. Ferguson; title: What to do with abnormal screening test results / Alex H. Krist and Terence McCormally; title: What not to do and why : the arguments against some forms of screening and chemoprevention / Janelle Guirguis-Blake and Russell Harris; title: Developing a health maintenance schedule / Paul S. Frame; title: How to organize the practice for improved delivery of clinical preventive services / John M. Hickner and Leif I. Solberg; title: Improving preventive care using automated tools / J. Marc Overhage; title: Reimbursement for clinical preventive services / Betsy Nicoletti; title: The future of health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice / Douglas Kamerow and Kevin Patrick.