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GPReview May 2007 Volume 11 Number 2
The May 2007 edition of GPReview includes
articles on GP mentoring in Kazakhstan, implementing preventive health
activities, wilderness medicine education at Nepal's Everest National
Park, diabetes education in general practice, asthma action plans, and
BEACH data on preventive activities in general practice.
News & Views: Bytes from BEACH
Associate Professor Helena Britt
How much preventive health care do general practitioners provide?
Theme: P.R.A.C.T.I.C.E. makes perfect
Reducing the burden of illness means finding ways to intervene early.
Cover: Steppe by steppe
In 1990, Dr Catherine Pratten spent ten months in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. She flew back to Australia six days before the collapse of the former Soviet Union. When she returned to Kazakhstan seventeen months later, it was to a new - and much changed - country.
QA&CPD: Taking learning to new heights
Dr Jim Duff
An education program at Nepal's Everest National Park helps GPs climb the path the learning wilderness medicine.
GPnetwork: Action stations
Ian Charlton
How to write an asthma action plan.
GPnetwork: Diabetes education in general practice
Kay Gallary
How allied services can offer health education within the practice.