primary care

The project was carried out in over 100 primary care centers within Spain's National Health System.

The tools for a healthy, dementia-free future exist: blood pressure control, appropriate statin and other therapy, smoking prevention and cessation support, and comprehensive primary care focused on prevention.

The DIY health trend brings risks like relying on diagnostic and treatment information that hasn’t been reviewed by a clinician, says Dr. Tom Delbanco, a professor at Harvard Medical School whose focus is primary care.

Many practices offer more-comprehensive primary care and streamline patients’ access to outside specialists.

Some 5% of primary care physicians have moved to this model, Robertson say.