This book is especially apt for those interested in implementing the practices and strategies that support programmes of health maintenance, preventive health and strategies for bringing about a change in personal and population health outcomes. These initiatives are sorely needed in all sectors of health care and prevention. Indeed, numerous reviews of health systems world-wide have highlighted the centrality of personal behaviours and self management as a key to improving the outcomes for the individual and populations.
Foreword; Introduction; Co-ordinating healthcare in Australia; Acute & chronic care approaches; Beyond the acute care paradigm; Economic & social benefits of self-management; Compression of morbidity -- living a healthier & longer life; The self-management rationale; The ethics of self-management; Self-management -- an ideological perspective; The paradox of self-management; Population health; Sustainable health care; A curriculum framework for learning about life management; Environmental health & the self-management dilemma; Sustainable health systems change; Empowerment & the health care consumer; Gambling addiction as an emerging context for self-management; Early intervention training & peer education; The health care industry revisited...a glimpse of the future; Consumer case studies; Health aphorisms; Conclusion; Index.
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