title: Osteoporosis risk assessment of mature working women: primary and secondary prevention strategies.
abstract: 1. Occupational health nurses have a prime opportunity to promote a healthy and stable population of working women through teaching osteoporosis risk reduction behaviors and conducting periodic osteoporosis risk assessments. 2. Health teaching about osteoporosis prevention is needed to foster health promotion and risk reduction behaviors among pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal women to lessen the incidence of fractures and secondary consequences. 3. By incorporating primary and secondary prevention strategies into occupational health nursing practice, great strides can be made in guiding women to initiate osteoporosis prevention behaviors to promote a more healthy and less restrictive lifestyle in later years.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors