title: Training for health care.
abstract: As primary health care professionals, family physicians can be in the forefront of the emerging field of preventive health counselling. Thus far the emphasis has been on the screening and treatment of disease. Consideration of lifestyle factors like family communication, nutrition, exercise and degree of stress receive little attention.This article describes a family practice which functions as a health maintenance program. The influence of the family practice residency on the concept formation is described, and the difficulties and challenge of putting the concepts into practice are shown.
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authors.lastname: Schwartz