Grief Samuel N, Talamayan Kathleen S
Department of Family Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 West Taylor Street, Room 159, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Prim Care. 2008 Dec;35(4):625-43. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2008.07.002.
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.
本文概述了如何在初级保健环境中将肥胖治疗转变为一种新的预防模式的步骤。几乎所有美国人都会在某个时候去看他们的初级保健医生或医疗服务提供者，进行常规的健康维护或治疗一些突发疾病。对于大多数人来说，初级保健办公室是进入医疗保健系统最有可能的切入点，应该是解决慢性病预防问题的首选场所。在初级保健环境中进行预防是解决肥胖问题的短期和长期办法。
