Maintaining Health in Primary Care: Guidelines for Wellness in the 21st Century

By Jennifer R. Jamison

The book provides a comprehensive, easily accessible source of information to aid practitioners with the education of their patients and to help them to take increasing responsibility for improving and maintaining their own health.

The book is supported by a Website providing free access to patient education materials. These include the patient handouts referred to in the text. The handouts available on the website are indicated in the text by the icon W. All the handouts are stored in a format which ensures that they can be printed out easily.

The book is divided into four main parts:

Part 1 addresses the issues of self-care and individuals' responsibilities for managing their own health safely and sensibly
Part 2 looks at developing good habits and introduces protocols to help individuals to establish a healthy lifestyle
Part 3 deals with cahnging risky behaviours and looks particularly at protocols for dealing with drug and alcohol abuse, smoking and stress
Part 4 is concerned with managing individual lifestyles to reduce the risk of life-threatening diseases such as stroke, heart attack, osteoporosis, cancer, obesity and diabetes.A text that is in tune with the times - health care systems are overburdened and financially unable to cope with the demandHelps with today's aim of increasing the emphasis on health promotion rather than on the treatment of diseaseShows how to help clients take increased responsibility for their own health careDemonstrates how to make more informed selective use of professional health careAddresses the questions and concerns most frequently raised by individuals regarding their health and disease preventionPresents a model for developing a personal health contract that patients can implementProvides easy-to-use protocols for many common scenariosIncludes Professional Posters giving step-by-step guidance to the practitioner on different aspects of health education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443070601
• ISBN13: 9780443070600
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 7.3"