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Clinical Preventive Medicine
edited by Richard N. Matzen and Richard S. Lang, with illus, ISBN 0-8016-3176-9, St Louis, Mo, Mosby-Year Book Inc, 1994.
John G. Spangler, MD, MPH, Reviewer
Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(9):836-837.
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As the nation's health care delivery system moves toward managed care, clinical skills in health promotion will become increasingly valuable. In this environment, texts such as Clinical Preventive Medicine are timely additions to the resources available to family physicians making the transition from the curative to the preventive model of health care. Recent works by the US government such as the 1989 Guide to Clinical Preventive Services and 1990 Healthy People 2000 have provided physicians with goals of good health for all Americans. By contrast, this textbook teaches the direct application of preventive medicine principles to the care of real patients.
This book is unique. Divided into 12 broad parts, starting with principles of preventive medicine, each section is further broken down into fairly comprehensive chapters. For example, part 6, "Specific Approaches to Different Patient Groups," deals with the child, the adolescent, the adult female, etc. One chapter in this
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