Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers the clinician a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on how to counsel patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression. Written by clinicians for clinicians, the book lays out the details on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designing a personalized health maintenance plan, facilitating behavior change, and the work-up of abnormal results from screening tests. It also explains how to organize the practice and clinic to deliver quality preventive care and to obtain reimbursement.

This new edition includes updated chapters on practice redesign, the use of electronic medical records, and reimbursement; updated patient resource materials and instructions; and new authors with deep expertise on the topics. Plus, with this second edition there is a companion Website (www.healthpromodisprev.com) that features fully searchable text online so you'll have a fast, flexible multimedia library at your service.

GATHERING INFORMATION

Principles of Risk Assessment

Steven H. Woolf

The History: What to Ask About

Alex H. Krist, Janelle Guirguis-Blake, and Steven H. Woolf

The Physical Examination: Where to Look for Preclinical Disease

Alex Krist, Janelle Guirguis-Blake, Steven H. Woolf, and Robert S. Lawrence

Laboratory Screening Tests

Janelle Guirguis-Blake, Alex Krist, and Steven Woolf

WHAT TO DO WITH THE INFORMATION: DESIGNING A HEALTH MAINTENANCE PLAN TARGETED TO PERSONAL HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND RISK FACTORS

Introduction to the Principles of Health Behavior Change

Russell E. Glasgow and Michael G. Goldstein

Regular Exercise

Steven Jonas

Nutrition

Roger A. Shewmake

Weight Management

Steven Jonas and Kavitha Bhat Schelbert

Tobacco Use

Stephen F. Rothemich

Substance Use Screening, Assessment, and Treatment

Randall T. Brown and Michael F. Fleming

Family Planning through Reversible Contraception

Karen Feisullin and Carolyn Westhoff

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Charles Kodner

Depression, Mood Disorders, and Cognitive Impairment

Daniel E. Ford

Self-Examination of the Breasts, Testes, and Skin

Steven H. Woolf

Chemoprophylaxis

Linda S. Kinsinger, Michael Pignone, and Heidi Nelson

Immunizations

Robert M. Wolfe

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Children and Adolescents

Virginia A. Moyer and Laura E. Ferguson

What to Do with Abnormal Screening Test Results

Alex H. Krist and Terence McCormally

What Not to Do and Why: The Arguments Against Some Forms of Screening and Chemoprevention

Janelle Guirguis-Blake and Russell Harris

PUTTING PREVENTION RECOMMENDATIONS INTO PRACTICE

Developing a Health Maintenance Schedule

Paul S. Frame

How to Organize the Practice for Improved Delivery of Clinical Preventive Services

John M. Hickner and Leif I. Solberg

Improving Preventive Care Using Automated Tools

J. Marc Overhage

Reimbursement for Clinical Preventive Services

Betsy Nicoletti

The Future of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice

Douglas Kamerow and Kevin Patrick

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