TY - JOUR
KW - Appetite Depressants/therapeutic use
KW - Counseling
KW - Diet
KW - Exercise
KW - Humans
KW - Obesity/prevention & control/therapy
KW - Patient Education as Topic/methods
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Primary Prevention/methods
KW - Reminder Systems
KW - Risk Factors
KW - United States
AU - S. N. Grief
AU - K. S. Talamayan
A1 - 
AB - This article outlines steps on how to move the treatment of obesity to a new paradigm of prevention in the primary care setting. Almost all Americans visit their primary care physician or health care provider for routine health maintenance or some unexpected illness or sickness at one point or another. The primary care office is the most likely entry point to the health care system for most of the population and should be the preferred venue for addressing chronic disease prevention. Prevention in the primary care setting is the short- and long-term solution to obesity.
BT - Primary care
C5 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth
CP - 4
CY - United States
DO - 10.1016/j.pop.2008.07.002
IS - 4
JF - Primary care
N2 - This article outlines steps on how to move the treatment of obesity to a new paradigm of prevention in the primary care setting. Almost all Americans visit their primary care physician or health care provider for routine health maintenance or some unexpected illness or sickness at one point or another. The primary care office is the most likely entry point to the health care system for most of the population and should be the preferred venue for addressing chronic disease prevention. Prevention in the primary care setting is the short- and long-term solution to obesity.
PP - United States
PY - 2008
SN - 1558-299X; 0095-4543
SP - 625
EP - 643
EP - 
T1 - Preventing obesity in the primary care setting
T2 - Primary care
TI - Preventing obesity in the primary care setting
U1 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth
U3 - 10.1016/j.pop.2008.07.002
VL - 35
VO - 1558-299X; 0095-4543
Y1 - 2008
ER -