[On the Potential of Prevention Counselors in the Primary Care Setting: Evaluation Study of an Intervention in the State of Brandenburg (Germany)].

The extent to which preventive measures adapted to the individual can be successfully established in primary care practices with the help of health care workers trained as prevention counselors depends strongly on the respective practice structures as well as the patient clientele. Temporal integration and coordination of the activities of prevention advisors in the daily practice routine seems to be likely to lead to success in interventions of the kind evaluated here.