Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice offers the clinician a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice provides practical guidance on how to counsel patients about:

• exercise
• nutrition
• tobacco use
• substance use
• sexually transmitted infections
• depression

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice also explains how to organize the practice and clinic to deliver quality preventive care and to obtain reimbursement.

Contents

1. Principles of Risk Assessment
2. The History: What to Ask About
3. The Physical Examination: Where to Look for Preclinical Disease
4. Laboratory Screening Tests
5. Introduction to the Principles of Health Behavior Change
6. Regular Exercise
7. Nutrition
8. Weight Management
9. Tobacco Use
10. Substandce se
11. Family Planning
12. Sexually Transmitted Infections
13. Depression, Mood Disorders, and Cognitive Impatiment
14. Self-examination of the Breasts, Testes, and Skin
15. Chemoprophylaxis
16. Immunizations
17. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Children and Adolescents
18. What to Do with Abnormal Screening Test Results
19. What Not to Do and Why: The Arguments against Some Forms of Screening and Chemoprevention
20. Developing a Health Maintenance Schedule
21. How to Organize the Practice for Improved Delivery of Clinical Prevention Services
22. Improving Preventive Care using Automated Tools
23. Reimbursement for Clinical Preventive Services
24. The Future of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice

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