In 1998 the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's (SAEM's) Board of Directors asked
the SAEM Public Health and Education Task Force to develop recommendations for …

Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) provide an opportunity to initiate preventive
services for millions of Americans who have no other source for these services. Objectives …

STUDY OBJECTIVE:: We describe the availability of preventive health services in US
emergency departments (EDs), as well as ED directors' preferred service and perceptions of …

Objective: To determine which preventive health information the emergency department
(ED) population (patients and visitors) would be most interested in having available to them …

This article is the outcome of a consensus building workshop entitled,“Overcoming Barriers
to Implementation and Dissemination” convened at the 2009 Academic Emergency …

In this article we describe health promotion practices of emergency physicians (EPs). A
survey was mailed to members of the West Virginia American College of Emergency …

Since being codified by Congress in 1984, the US Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF) has been fulfilling its charge to conduct rigorous reviews of research evidence to …

This article asks what can be learned from the experience of managing the utilization of
acute care services that is applicable to achieving appropriate utilization of preventive care …

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Abstract Since 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been advocating for the
health sector to move increasingly in a health promotion direction, beyond its responsibility …