Prevention as a new approach to primary care?

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Jul 21 2011

The Associated Press: Trying A New Approach To Primary Care: Prevention
A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars (Murphy, 7/20).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Tags: Doctor, Health Care, Health Coaching, Primary Care, Research

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