Health Care Providers
“A better understanding of health development should enable us to manipulate early risk factors and protective factors and help shift our emphasis on treatment in the later stages of disease to the promotion of earlier, more effective preventive strategies and interventions focused on maximizing optimal health development.”
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Whether you are an obstetrician, a family practitioner, or a pediatrician, you have enormous influence on the choices your patients make about a whole range of issues related to healthy births and healthy babies. Of course you are providing the best possible medical care. But you have an opportunity to enhance that medical care by providing clear and direct guidance on issues ranging from smoking to breastfeeding. Following are some suggestions for approaches to these issues that can be implemented within a practice with minimal additional time. The impact on your patient and on her baby can be immeasurable. |
