Targeted prevention in primary care aimed at lifestyle-related diseases: a study protocol for a non-randomised pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The consequences of lifestyle-related disease represent a major burden for the individual as well as for society at large. Individual preventive health checks to the general population have been suggested as a mean to reduce the burden of lifestyle-related diseases, though with mixed evidence on effectiveness. Several systematic reviews, on the other hand, suggest that health checks targeting people at high risk of chronic lifestyle-related diseases may be more effective. The evidence is however very limited. To effectively target people at high risk of lifestyle-related disease, there is a substantial need to advance and implement evidence-based health strategies and interventions that facilitate the identification and management of people at high risk. This paper repor

SUBMITTER: Larsen LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054846 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature