Physicians' beliefs about the importance of 25 health promoting behaviors.
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 75 (12) , 1427-1428
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.75.12.1427
Abstract
A mail survey of 1,040 primary care physicians in Maryland examined their beliefs about the importance of 25 behaviors for promoting the health of the average person. Physician consensus existed across specialties in rating most health behaviors as very important and few as very unimportant. Eliminating smoking was most important and taking vitamin supplements least important.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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