Preventive Medicine, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 7-1 - November 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Stephanie L. Neary
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 5 3 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 5 3 5 - 0
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest editor Stephanie L. Neary brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Preventative Medicine.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on the latest updates in Preventative Medicine, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- CME Accreditation Page
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Clinical Medicine
- Diabetes Prevention: Focusing on Lifestyle and Behavior Change
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prevalence and economic burden
- Risk factors, screening and diagnosis of prediabetes/type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Behavior and lifestyle modification
- Pharmacologic therapy and bariatric surgery
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diabetic Ulcer Prevention
- Key points
- Introduction
- Overview: factors that contribute to ulcer formation
- Vasculopathy
- Neuropathy
- Trauma
- Risk stratification: identifying the at risk foot
- Additional interventions and recommendations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Update on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Disease affecting cardiovascular risk
- Current studies and trials
- CT calcium score testing
- Approach to patient education
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Obesity Prevention
- Key points
- Introduction/history
- Definition of obesity
- Prevalence/incidence of obesity
- Methods of prevention
- Multimodal Approach
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Overview of weight bias, stigma, and discrimination
- Weight bias in the health care setting
- Preventing weight bias in obesity
- Stress and weight gain
- Targeting the pediatric population
- Early life stress and metabolic effects
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Under Pressure: Optimizing the Well-child Check in Children Aged 3 to 18 Years
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Discussion
- Mental health
- Impact of racism on mental health
- Blood pressure
- Patient engagement and anticipatory guidance
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Preventative Medicine for Older Adults
- Key points
- Introduction
- Factors to consider in older patients
- Medicare wellness visits
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Call to Action: Multidimensional PA Well-Being Strategies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Individual wellness strategies
- Organization level solutions
- National clinician well-being initiatives
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Community Health
- Healthy Communities: A Physician Assistant’s Perspective
- Key points
- Introduction
- Physical activity and healthy food
- How safe is your community?
- Community education
- Social investment in community
- Access to health care
- Summary
- For further information
- Clinics care points
- Sexual Health Preventive Services: Screenings, Vaccination, and Counseling
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Vaccines
- Key points
- Introduction
- Vaccine pathophysiology and pharmacology
- Vaccination recommendations
- Barriers to vaccine uptake
- Strategies to improve vaccine uptake
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Health Disparities and Access to Care in the United States
- Key points
- History
- Definition
- Age
- Disability
- Socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity
- Gender identity and sexual orientation
- Geographic location
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Challenges of Providing Preventive Health Care in Rural America
- Key points
- Introduction
- Health care access
- Social determinants of health
- Transportation
- Rural population health and the 5 leading causes of death
- Rural health disparity solutions
- Transformative solutions
- Impact of COVID-19 on rural health care transformation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Population Health - Policy level
- Preventing and Treating Tobacco Use
- Key points
- Introduction
- Health impact of tobacco use
- Tobacco use prevention strategies
- Tobacco use cessation strategies
- Pharmacologic treatments
- Nonpharmacologic treatments
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Nutrition Food Policy Guidelines: What Should Patients Eat?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Dietary guidelines for Americans
- Nutrition for infants and toddlers
- Childhood, adolescents, and adults
- Pregnancy and lactation
- Nutrition and cancer prevention
- Diet patterns and food groups
- Diabetes mellitus and kidney disease guidelines
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- COVID-19: Salt in the Wound of Health Care Inequality and the Cause of a New Health Care Disparity
- Introduction
- COVID-19 and race: salt in an already open wound of health care disparity
- Discussion: what can we do as health care providers
- Discussion: what can we do as health care providers
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 7-1
- Published: November 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323835343
- eBook ISBN: 9780323835350
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Stephanie L. Neary
Affiliations and expertise
Instructor | Didactic Coordinator
Yale Physician Assistant Online Program
100 Church Street South