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It is well proven that 4 health risk behaviors – smoking tobacco, risky alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity – cause premature disease, disability and death and massively increase the fiscal burden of health care. What has not been well known is whether systematically applied techniques in contemporary primary care practice can stimulate and assist patients to modify or abort their risky behavior...
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Great article in a great supplement. Lifestyle or behavior change offers the largest potential to improve health in primary care practice. I applaud this article's call for redesign of practice to enhance what we already do in today's "real world practice". Let's be more explicit about the redesign possibilities. Continuous comminication through a practice website makes a primary care practice omnipresent in the patie...
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