Perspectives in Prevention From the American College of Preventive Medicine

Public Health in the Smartphone Era Medical and healthcare smartphone apps are increasing in number. How can they be used in the public health arena?
December 18, 2012
Ethical Principles for the Practice of Population Medicine What does the practice of medicine mean when your patient is the community?
September 28, 2012
Diet and the Prevention of Chronic Disease Having a hard time keeping up with what to recommend to patients? This up-to-date review provides the answers.
August 21, 2012
Developmental Screening in Children Every well-child visit should include age-appropriate developmental screening, and treatment or referral if necessary. Tips on how to accomplish this in a busy office are found in this article.
July 17, 2012
Cancer Surveillance Informatics Cancer informatics has the potential to revolutionize cancer care by harnessing the power of data.
April 17, 2012
Preventive Health and the Affordable Care Act The potential impact of healthcare reform on preventive health in the United States is enormous.
April 12, 2012
Transitioning Adolescents Into Adult Healthcare Careful planning can smooth the transition from pediatric to adult healthcare for the adolescent.
December 14, 2011
Dietary Supplements and the Clinical Encounter Patients are taking more dietary supplements. Do you know the right questions to ask?
October 27, 2011
Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine The barriers to clinician prescribing of lifestyle medicine are slowly, but surely, being removed.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 15, 2011
Stepping Up STI Counseling and Prevention Here's how to ask the questions that you know you should be asking.
July 20, 2011
Advising Patients on Safe Travel Abroad If your patients are traveling abroad, be ready with this advice on how to prevent illness or injury.
May 06, 2011
Preventing Injury and Death in Young Workers Adolescents who enter the workforce are at high risk for work-related injury, but the right information may protect them.
April 01, 2011
"Greening" Your Practice To prevent chronic disease in the 21st century, we need to "green" our practices and our approach to patients' health.
November 30, 2010
Urban Health and Physical Activity As our society becomes more sedentary, how can we get people off the couch and onto the sidewalks?
September 30, 2010
Foodborne Illness Primer for Physicians and Other Healthcare Professionals: A Review Can you recognize foodborne illness? Do you know what should be reported and to whom? This primer has the answers you need and includes a very useful table of presentations and likely etiologic agents.
August 10, 2010
Vaccination as a Tool for Cancer Prevention Millions of people are affected every year by infection-induced cancer. Are you following these important recommendations aimed at preventing such cancers in your patients?
July 15, 2010
Adolescents and Emergency Contraceptive Pill Access: Moving Beyond Politics Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are increasing again, yet use of emergency contraception among adolescents remains low.
April 02, 2010
Medications as Modifiable Contributors to Weight Gain Could your patients' medications be reducing their success at weight management? Find out in this comprehensive review.
March 24, 2010
ACPM Response to Mammography Recommendations The ACPM weighs in on the USPSTF recommendations on breast cancer screening. Unlike other groups, they support them.
December 17, 2009
The Role of Clinicians in Preparing Patients for Disasters Patients need the encouragement and assistance of healthcare clinicians to develop disaster preparedness plans.
October 07, 2009