The workplace is a powerful setting to reach large numbers of at-risk adults with effective chronic disease prevention programs. Missed preventive care is a particular problem for workers with low income and no health insurance. The costs of chronic diseases among workers--including health care costs, productivity losses, and employee turnover--have prompted employers to seek health promotion i...

patients.”11 Indeed, many preventive interventions have proven benefi t. Yet Hudson et al present the quandary that many patients appear willing to undergo preventive care on the basis of “overly optimistic expectations of the benefi ts of preventive interventions and screening.”10 Are they innumerate or overly optimistic? What about policy makers? What about clinicians? We hope you will share ...

Increasing research is available on the preconditions for child mental health and optimal development in traumatic conditions, whereas less is known how to translate the findings into effective interventions to help traumatized children. This literature review analyses the effectiveness of psychosocial preventive interventions and treatments and their theoretical bases among children traumatize...

Clinical use of genetic testing to predict adult onset conditions allows individuals to minimize or circumvent disease when preventive medical interventions are available. Recent policy recommendations and changes expand patient access to information about asymptomatic genetic conditions and create mechanisms for expanded insurance coverage for genetic tests. The American College of Medical Gen...

BACKGROUND The public health problem-solving paradigm is a comprehensive method not previously applied to preventive interventions for personality disorder. AIMS To present an overview for clinical psychiatrists. METHOD Review of epidemiological research into DSM-IV Axis Il disorders and application to the paradigm. RESULTS Personality disorder affects a substantial proportion of the popu...

Cancer poses danger because of its unregulated growth, development of resistance, and metastatic spread to vital organs. We currently lack quantitative theory for how preventive measures and post-diagnostic interventions are predicted to affect risks of a life threatening cancer. Here we evaluate how continuous measures, such as life style changes and traditional treatments, affect both neoplas...