Bone health in menopausal women: a role for General Practitioners.

General Practitioners (GPs) are in a prime location to assess patient health needs, knowing clinical history, living habits and risk factors. GPs can identify in healthy people those in which prevention could be useful, in order to avoid or delay some diseases. For this purpose GPs need to change their care model from a waiting model to a proactive model, in order to identify health needs before the development of diseases.