Recall-Promoting Physician Behaviors in Primary Care

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...

Resident physician preventive health behaviors and perspectives on primary care.

UNLABELLED Little is known about lifestyle choices and preventive healthcare seeking behaviors among resident physicians. Residents function under unusual working conditions requiring extensive duty hours. This may significantly affect attentiveness to personal health and wellness. In this study, we surveyed residents across multiple training programs to compare lifestyle choices and access to ...

Physician associates in primary care.

I am delighted to see this subject taking a prominent position in discussions on human resources for the NHS and in particular in primary care. It was back in 1981 that Ian FM Saint-Yves and I wrote about this subject.1–3 However at that time the reaction from the profession was mainly derided and considered unnecessary. I hope the observational studies continue to show GPs how effective this a...

Promoting exercise in primary care.

Efficacy of Family Physician Program in Providing Primary Care in Talesh, Iran

Background The healthcare providers are always seeking improvements in the health care delivery system in order to achieve better results. Objective This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of Family Physician Program (FPP) in providing primary care in Talesh, Iran. Methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 50 physicians working in Talesh city as family physician in 2020, and 384 p...