In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editor Dr. Marie Krousel-Wood brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Current Challenges and New Directions in Preventive Medicine. Top experts in the field provide evidence-based recommendations and strategies for common preventative medicine topics, including screening and vaccinations.
Key Features
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Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine hesitancy; substance use/opioid use disorder and clinical care; obesity-implementing evidence: strategies in clinical practice; healthcare providers and staff coping and burnout in the era of COVID-19; lifestyle medicine; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on preventive medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Author Information
Edited by Marie Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, FACPM, President, The American College of Preventive Medicine,The Jack Aron Chair in Primary Care Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Associate Provost for the Health Sciences, Tulane University
Health-care Worker Engagement in Federally Qualified Health Centers and Associations with Confidence in Making Health-care Recommendations: Evidence from the Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance
Vaccine Preventable Disease and Vaccine Hesitancy
Cancer Screening: Patient and Population Strategies
Older Adults and Unintentional Injury
Women’s Clinical Preventive Services: Closing the Gaps and Implementing in Practice
Addressing Obesity: Implementing Evidence-Based Lifestyle Prevention and Treatment Strategies in Clinical Practice
Treatment Updates for Pain Management and Opioid Use Disorder
Brief Action Planning in Health and Health Care: A Scoping Review
Mobile Health and Preventive Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine: Prevention, Treatment, and Reversal of Disease
Rethinking Health and Health Care: How Clinicians and Practice Groups Can Better Promote Whole Health and Well-Being for People and Communities