title: Prevention in practice.
abstract: There are many barriers that must be overcome for health providers to integrate appropriate health screening, health promotion, and disease prevention into their practices. This article delineates these barriers and offers suggestions to put prevention into practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine 04937, USA.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Alto
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015438:Health Behavior; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008019:Life Style; D008403:Mass Screening; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States