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Lifetime Health Maintenance Program (LHMP) is a special type of clinical preventive services that include screening for diseases, counseling and immunization. The Korean Task Force on the LHMP reviews evidence for interventions to pre-vent over 50 different illnesses and conditions. The problems addressed in this program are common ones encountered every day by primary care physicians in Korea : cardiovascular and infectious diseases, endocrine diseases, cancers, alcohol and smokingrelated morbidities, and many others. Primary -are clinicians play the key role in screening for many of these problems and immunizing against others. Of equal imporrance, however, is the clinician´s role in counseling patients to :hange unhealthful behaviors related to diet, smoking, exer-;ise, injuries, and sexually transmitted diseases. The recommendations are stratified by age, sex, and other risk factors.
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