Health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice

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.

subjects: Preventive Health Services,  Health promotion,  Preventive Medicine,  Clinical health psychology,  Medicine, preventive,  Clinical & Internal Medicine,  Medical,  Medical / Nursing,  Epidemiology,  Family & General Practice,  Internal Medicine,  Medical / Internal Medicine,  Administration & management,  Clinical psychology,  Clinical medicine

Places: United States