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Workshop E
Pages 291-292

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From page 291...
... Among the more important ones are the distinction between community wants and community needs, the cultural and ethnic diversity of patient groups and the impact of this diversity on health behavior, the need to organize records to include basic epidemiologic data via color coding of charts or other techniques, and the teaching of policy analysis skills to help the health professional determine the scope of responsibility. There was strong feeling that there should be a follow-up to the conference with the conferees forming a network of consultation and support, distributing phone numbers and references on papers describing their own COPC projects, etc.
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From page 292...
... Private practice should be adapted to COPC, new practice systems should be developed, nonpractice settings such as the industrial medicine services of large corporations should be encouraged tO develop COPC, and the remnants of HSA planning activities should be utilized especially at the town, city, and county level to develop appropriate surveillance data for COPC.
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