Objective To estimate the proportion of general practitioners (GPs) and family physicians
(FPs) with negative beliefs and attitudes towards discussing smoking cessation with …

A look at how the concept of" risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive
medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease. The greatest revolutions in …

Background Delivery of preventive health services in primary care is lacking. One of the
main barriers is lack of time. We estimated the amount of time primary care physicians spend …

ÖZET Ülkemizde 15 yaş üstü nüfusun% 43.6's› sigara içmektedir. Sigara bağımlılığı sadece
psikolojik değil, çevresel ve fizyolojik nedenlere de bağlıdır. Sigara bıraktırma işleminde …

Background US Hispanic physicians constitute a considerable professional collective, and
they may be most suited to attend to the health education needs of the growing US Hispanic …

Background Primary health care (PHC) settings offer opportunities for tobacco use
screening and brief cessation advice, but data on such activities in South Africa are limited …

Purpose Characterize factors associated with smoking-cessation counseling in clinical
encounters. Design Cross-sectional analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System …

BACKGROUND: Brief advice for smoking patients has not been sufficiently integrated in
routine care. Computer-based interventions emerged as a time saving option that might help …

Background Preliminary findings suggest that Web-based interventions may be effective in
achieving significant smoking cessation. To date, very few findings are available for primary …

Background. Sixty-seven percent of physicians report advising their smoking patients to quit.
Primary care residents' priorities for preventive health for a young “high-risk” female are …