Obesity: what role for general practice in management?

Improving survival in colorectal cancer: what role for general practice?

Obesity management in general practice: does current practice match guideline recommendations?

OBJECTIVE To assess the documentation of measures recommended in the National Health and Medical Research Council clinical practice guidelines for managing overweight and obesity in adults, adolescents and children in Australia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective analysis of routine general practice data from 270,426 adult patients. Data were extracted from the Melbourne East Mona...

A Study of Obesity in General Practice

MUCH has been written on the subject of obesity, so much that it is impossible to review the literature here. Yet, after all the investigations on the subject, the cause of overweight still evades us, except in a few conditions (e.g., myxcedema), where it occurs as a secondary manifestation of underlying disorder. Basically, of course, if energy input is greater than output, there is increase i...

How useful are clinical guidelines for the management of obesity in general practice?

Obesity is a major public health issue and numerous clinical guidelines have been published to support management. One of the most comprehensive guidelines on obesity was published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2006 (NICE guideline 43) which aims to offer practical recommendations based on the available evidence and has a strong focus on primary care bot...

Social determinants of health and health inequalities: what role for general practice?

This paper argues that general practice is potentially an important social determinant of health and health inequalities. The way it is influential is consistent with models of causal pathways in the way social and societal factors influence health. General practice clinical care can be thought of as a material resource. Evidence exists at many levels that this resource is inequitably distribut...