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New AAFP publication will enhance patients' knowledge of health, wellness issues

Ready for a health education publication with style and substance that you could set out with pride in your waiting room? Want extra copies that you could give to patients on request -- free?

Good news: Your wait will be over in the first quarter of 2004. That's when Family Doctor: Your Essential Guide to Health and Wellbeing is scheduled to start shipping.

It's a consumer health publication produced and distributed by the AAFP in partnership with custom publisher Boston Hannah. The publication, to be provided free to AAFP members' practices, will:

• focus on a wide range of health issues affecting patients and their families;
• strengthen the patient-physician relationship by providing tools and tips to help the patient be a partner in his or her health care;
• support family physicians and their team members by providing the highest-quality health information for patients at the point of care; and
• address the patient as a whole person, in keeping with the philosophy of family medicine.

More than 500,000 copies will be available for use as permanent display copies in AAFP members' waiting rooms; for handing out to patients on request; and for purchase on http://familydoctor.org, AAFP's health education Web site. Supported by advertising, the publication will be updated annually.

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FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department.
Copyright © 2003 by American Academy of Family Physicians.

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