title: Health risk appraisal in primary care.
abstract: Preventive medicine focuses on the identification of factors that will lead to disability or disease and then the discovery of ways to eliminate or at least minimize these risk factors. In this article, the authors outline a guide for primary health care practitioners to practice preventive medicine using a computerized individual risk appraisal.
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D004777:Environment; D005544:Forecasting; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States