en Community Medicine Community Medicine Original Research Original Research <p><strong>Background: </strong>Screening and behavior consultation are considered to be limited, dispersed and expensive services across the country. To deliver efficient and equitable services current disordered practices need to be consolidated.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Methods:</strong> An analysis of current situation, learned lessons and future scopes of country&rsquo;s preventive care delivery, along with a review of international experience and generous participation of various stakeholders, led to proposing a model for screening and behavior consultation practices in IR. Iran.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Results:</strong> Upon the results of the previous steps, the desired model was based on the network system and family physician. Comprehensive health centers and other centers affiliated to the network are the most appropriate service positions. However, private and academic preventive centers are playing their rules.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Conclusion:</strong> The proposed model matches the overall pattern of service delivery in the health system (network system with the private sector and the educational sector).<br> &nbsp;</p> <p></p> Preventive health service, Health care delivery, Health risk assessment, Behaviors, Risk reduction 732 735 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3441-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Soodabeh Hoveidamanesh hoveidamanesh@gmail.com 200319475328460042401 200319475328460042401 No Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Farnoush Davoudi f.davoudi@gmail.com 200319475328460042402 200319475328460042402 Yes Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Jalil Koohpayehzadeh jkuhpayeh@yahoo.com 200319475328460042403 200319475328460042403 No Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Marzieh Nojomi mnojomi@gmail.com 200319475328460042404 200319475328460042404 No Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences & Academy of Medical Sciences of Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran