title: Provider versus patient-centered approaches to health promotion with parents of young children: what works/does not work and why.
abstract: The purpose of this paper was to provide insight into why the health promotion approach now in general use does not work and to describe the rationale and specific steps that can be taken to enhance the effectiveness of preventive communications.
authors.affiliation: Dental Public Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. philw@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weinstein
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003376:Counseling; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003815:Dentists; D015438:Health Behavior; D006267:Health Education, Dental; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D011368:Professional-Family Relations