Perspectives in Prevention From the American College of Preventive Medicine

• Public Health: There's an App for That How should clinicians and patients use smartphone technology to improve health and healthcare? The current review provides answers.
  January 28, 2013
• Impacting the Community With Population Medicine What are the ethical guidelines for population medicine? The current review provides answers.
  October 12, 2012
• Does a Healthy Diet Prevent Chronic Disease? Which diets work for obese patients? The current review highlights healthy diets and how to enlist patients to undertake dietary changes.
  August 29, 2012
• Childhood Development: How Do You Catch Problems Early? What should physicians do in cases of suspected developmental delay among young children? The current review provides answers.
  July 19, 2012
• Cancer Surveillance Can cancer surveillance informatics improve real-world patient outcomes? The current review explores this issue.
  April 23, 2012
• Preventive Care and the Affordable Care Act Can the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act improve preventive health services? The current review provides answers.
  April 18, 2012
• Transition of Care for Adolescents The current review describes best practices in the transition of care from adolescence to young adulthood.
  December 15, 2011
• Dietary Supplements: How to Counsel Patients What are the risks associated with the use of dietary supplements? The current review highlights this issue for clinicians.
  November 01, 2011
• Lifestyle Medicine How can clinicians more effectively discuss healthy lifestyles with their patients? The current review describes the best practice in lifestyle medicine.
  Experts And Viewpoints, August 16, 2011
• Screening for STIs Physicians can make an important difference in reducing the transmission of STIs, but they often fail to recognize high-risk patients. The current review offers the best practice in identifying STI infections.
  July 22, 2011
• Travel and Health With summer travel season approaching, clinicians should review how to effectively prevent travel-borne illness among their patients. The current article addresses this issue.
  May 06, 2011
• Occupational Health and Safety in Young Workers What are the health risks for children and adolescents in the workplace? The current review highlights this issue and describes the best practice to prevent workplace injury among young people.
  April 01, 2011
• The Value of 'Greening' Your Practice To prevent chronic disease in the 21st century, we need to "green" our practices and our approach to patients' health.
  March 31, 2011
• Urban Health and Physical Activity As our society becomes more sedentary, how can we get people off the couch and onto the sidewalks?
  November 09, 2010
• Foodborne Illness Primer for Physicians and Other Healthcare Professionals: A Review Can you recognize foodborne illness? Do you know what should be reported and to whom? This primer has the answers you need and includes a very useful table of presentations and likely etiologic agents.
  September 03, 2010
• Vaccination as a Tool for Cancer Prevention Millions of people are affected every year by infection-induced cancer. Are you following these important recommendations aimed at preventing such cancers in your patients?
  August 24, 2010
• Adolescents and Emergency Contraceptive Pill Access: Moving Beyond Politics Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are increasing again, yet use of emergency contraception among adolescents remains low.
  May 25, 2010
• Medications as Modifiable Contributors to Weight Gain Could your patients' medications be reducing their success at weight management? Find out in this comprehensive review.
  May 12, 2010
• A Case for Documenting Occupational History in the Medical Record Experts explain why documentation of patient work history in the medical record can affect patient and societal health.
  January 29, 2010
• Preventive Care for Adults With Down Syndrome A handy resource for primary care providers who have patients with Down syndrome.
  January 22, 2010