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

Jamison MBBCh PhD EdD, Jennifer R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443070601 ISBN 13: 9780443070600

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Synopsis

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 demand Helps with today's aim of increasing the emphasis on health promotion rather than on the treatment of disease Shows how to help clients take increased responsibility for their own health care Demonstrates how to make more informed selective use of professional health care Addresses the questions and concerns most frequently raised by individuals regarding their health and disease prevention Presents a model for developing a personal health contract that patients can implement Provides easy-to-use protocols for many common scenarios Includes Professional Posters giving step-by-step guidance to the practitioner on different aspects of health education.

About this title

About the Author

Jenny Jamison is a qualified medical doctor. She also has doctorates in Education and Publich Health as well as a PhD. Her particular expertise is in medical and health education. She is an expert in teaching strategies and their application to health care and patient education.
She is author of another CL title - Differential Diagnosis -for Primary Practice, which was published in Jan 99 since when it has sold 3000 copies of which 1220 have been to the USA.
Jamison has worked in South Africa and the USA as well as in Australia and is well known in those countries. She teaches to chiropractic and comp therapy students as well as to medical and allied health undergraduates.

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443070601
• ISBN 13: 9780443070600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400