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Dr Kamarow's article is highly encouraging for the potential health
improvements that US citizens can look forward to with the implementation of the
many health promotion initiatives built into the Health Reforms. It may
well have benefits beyond the US, given that such high levels of
intervention will no doubt increase research activity to explore best
practice and efficay within the broad field of health promotion and
preventive medicine. In addition, medical undergraduate education will
place more emphasis on the skills needed to promote health and increase
research into this associated field. There is much to share as these
reforms take shape for the wider community of medical practice, health
promotion and medical education, important but sometime marginalised
fields.http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=1846192927
Health promotion benefits beyond US
Dr Kamarow's article is highly encouraging for the potential health
improvements that US citizens can look forward to with the implementation of the
many health promotion initiatives built into the Health Reforms. It may
well have benefits beyond the US, given that such high levels of
intervention will no doubt increase research activity to explore best
practice and efficay within the broad field of health promotion and
preventive medicine. In addition, medical undergraduate education will
place more emphasis on the skills needed to promote health and increase
research into this associated field. There is much to share as these
reforms take shape for the wider community of medical practice, health
promotion and medical education, important but sometime marginalised
fields.http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=1846192927
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