Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) can be an effective paradigm for both the inclusion of preventive care in primary care practices, especially in rural Utah, and the effective teaching of preventive medicine and primary care. This article discusses the three major elements of COPC and suggests a five-step process to incorporate COPC into a health care professional’s practice that would be ...

The Bilbao School Health Service was created at the beginning of the century with the aim of preventing transmittable diseases among children as well as improving nutrition. At that time such services were established in many other countries. Since then, according to evolving societal changes and emerging needs, the Service has reoriented its scope and structure towards the Health Promotion sch...

Editorial Lessons from the past: integrated prevention is successful Unhealthy lifestyles are the main cause of most chronic diseases, amongst others: smoking, too little exercise, too much alcohol consumption, too much and too fatty food, too much drugs consumption, too much stress and unsafe sexual behaviour. Prevention of these unhealthy lifestyles consists of seven elements: 1. health educa...

the purpose of this study was comparison the mean numbers of health knowledge & attitude and practice of first and last year students in hamadan university of medical sciences. the studied populations were 301 first year medical students and 233 last year medical students in different subjects; they were compared with a sample population of bou- ali university students as control group. the res...

Last winter I delivered a lecture at the Center for D~ase Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. I During my stay there, I learned that CDC is broadening its horizons by becoming a national center for preventive medicine. Severaf years ago I suggested something very sirniiar. z At that time, my plan involved the establishment of an Institute for Health Care Systems Research, to be financed by insur...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the patient or physician practice characteristics predict the use of diabetes preventive care services. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of 27,169 adult ambulatory care visits, using the 2007 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data. The outcome variable is whether any preventive care servic...

Adequate health care represents an issue that has always troubled rural America. From the earliest days of this country, affordable and quality health care has often been harder to find for those who those to live on the farm or in a small town or any place off the beaten path than it has for residents in urban areas. The State of Mississippi has undertaken an intensive program to widen access ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences of British Columbia's (BC's) Public Health Inspectors in practicing health promotion. METHODS We administered a mixed qualitative-quantitative survey to 15 BC Public Health Inspectors (in BC, titled Environmental Health Officers--EHOs), selected to represent different levels of authority, areas of work and geographic regions. We queried whether and how the...