Promoting Healthy Family Behaviors in the Primary Care Setting

Promoting Healthy Family Behaviors in the Primary Care Setting

IIntroductiion:: Pediatric obesity is an increasingly prevalent problem. Several studies have examined prevention and treatment strategies. The majority of effective studies involved school or community interventions. With health care becoming more collaborative, we hypothesized that a behavioral health specialist may be effective in executing multifaceted interventions with families of at-risk...

The community health educator referral liaison (CHERL): a primary care practice role for promoting healthy behaviors.

BACKGROUND Tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and risky alcohol use are leading causes of preventable death. As there are many barriers that prevent primary care clinicians from effectively assisting patients with these behaviors, connecting patients with health behavior resources may reduce these unhealthy behaviors. METHODS A new adjunct role in primary care practice, the com...

Promoting exercise in primary care.

Promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy: the experience from a primary care setting in Khayelitsha, South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To describe the approach used to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to present the outcomes in the first primary care public sector ART project in South Africa. DESIGN The study is a prospective open cohort, including all adult patients naive to previous ART who received antiretroviral treatment in Khayelitsha, from May 2001 to the end of 2002. Patients were follo...

Primary Care Setting

Background: Numerous studies indicate that Papanicolaou smears contain better cellular material when the technique for collecting the sample employs the Zelsmyn Cytobrush TIl. Few studies, however, have examined its ability to increase the percentage of abnormal Papanicolaou smear results in actual clinical practice. Methods: This study looked at 7999 Papanicolaou smears done by 46 primary care...