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Counseling on Cardiovascular Behavioral Risk Factors within the Healthcare System: the CroHort Study
Vanja Crnica
Bojana Bolić
Aleksandar Džakula
Ksenija Vitale
Neda Pjevač
Abstract
Eliminating four behavioral risk factors (tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and harmful use of alcohol) could contribute to a decrease of up to 80% in burden of non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases. Primary healthcare providers have a unique position within the healthcare system, which allows them to actively contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular behavioral risk factors (CVBRFs) by providing individual counseling. The aim of this article is to show the change in frequency and the effects of counseling on CVBRFs by healthcare providers between
two periods: up until 2003 and between 2003 and 2008. Results, obtained within the CroHort study, show a low frequency and undesired effects of counseling within the healthcare system in both studied periods. This points to a lack of consistency with which the healthcare system tackles prevention of behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
Keywords
prevention; non-communicable disease; cardiovascular disease; counseling; primary healthcare
Hrčak ID:
75702
URI
Publication date:
2.1.2012.
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