Acknowledgment

Abstract

This supplement is a product of the “Addressing Multiple Behavioral Risk Factors in Primary Care” project, which was launched in 2001 through a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication (BIHCC). The project aims were to: review existing evidence regarding multiple behavioral risk factors in primary care; identify effective and promising screening, intervention, and system-based strategies; and develop recommendations for research, practice, and policy. The Project Planning Committee, led by Michael Goldstein, MD, also included Thomas Babor, PhD, Helen Burstin MD, MPH, Elliot Coups, PhD, Lawrence Fine, MD, Russell Glasgow, PhD, Jessie Gruman, PhD, Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, John Higgins-Biddle, PhD, David Lanier, MD, Joseph Marx, BA, Judith Ockene, PhD, M.Ed., C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, C.J. Peek, PhD, Nicolaas Pronk, PhD, Brigid McHugh Sanner, MS, Kurt Stange, MD, and Evelyn Whitlock, MD, MPH. In addition to completing the four literature reviews (Fine and colleagues, Babor and colleagues, Goldstein and colleagues, and Glasgow, Goldstein, Ockene, and Pronk) that are among the articles published in this supplement, members of the Planning Committee designed and conducted two Structured Interactive Dialogue sessions that brought together stakeholders from the clinical, health care system, and public policy arenas to share and discuss perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches for addressing multiple behavioral risk factors in primary care. Pronk and colleagues share and discuss the results of the dialogue sessions in another articles in this series. Four additional papers in this supplement were submitted by research groups that were working contemporaneously with the project planning committee.