The Prescription for Health Initiative Some Steps on the Road to Success: What Will It Take to Complete the Journey?

摘要

The papers in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on the Prescription for Health initiative represents a noble practice-based effort to build assessment, intervention, support, and linkages for a big four (use of tobacco, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, and the risky use of alcohol) of behavioral issues as encountered in ten different primary care research network practices into functioning and sustained programs. Taken as a whole, the papers address various aspects of the system building that must occur to successfully address these issues in practice.