Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice 7th edition
Introduction and user guide
- Introduction
- Patient education and health literacy
- Development of the ‘red book’ (7th edition)
- How to use the ‘red book’
- What’s new in this 7th edition? Highlighting significant changes
Preventive activities before pregnancy
Genetic counselling and testing
Preventive activities in children and young people
- Introduction
- Parenting
- Preventive counselling and advice
- Growth, overweight and obesity
- Newborns
- Infants: 1-24 months of age
- Preschool: 2-5 years of age
- School age: 6-13 years of age
- Adolescence: 14-19 years of age
Preventive activities in middle age
Preventive activities in older age
Communicable diseases
Prevention of chronic disease
Prevention of vascular and metabolic disease
Early detection of cancers
- Introduction
- Skin cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Breast cancer
- Oral cancer
- Colorectal cancer (bowel cancer)
- Testicular cancer
- Prostate cancer
Psychosocial
Oral hygiene
Glaucoma
Urinary incontinence
Osteoporosis
Screening tests of unproven benefit
References
Appendices
Glossary
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
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