evidence-based content ensures a firm scientific basis for practice the practical nature of the content can be immediately applied in the working environment e.g. smoking cessation strategies, dietary counseling and risk assessment the multidisciplinary group of contributors ensures that the content reflects the multidisciplinary nature of CHD prevention work case studies and practice exercises enable the application of theory to practice summaries of key points facilitate understanding and retentionthe implications from clinical governance legislation, the National Service Frameworks and Joint British Recommendations on prevention of CHD in clinical practicerecent research outcomes e.g. the HOT trialdiabetes and its links with CHDmaterial relating to ethnic minorities more 'global' statistics where possible to make the text more appealing to international markets the inequalities arising from socio-economic exclusion