Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions

Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion patient education and other health services interventions, problems remain in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a unique compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales for measuring health behaviors, health status, self-efficacy, and health-care utilization.

Medical Books

Lynch, John

Lorig RN DrPH, Kate

STEWART, Anita

Ritter, Philip

Laurent, Diana

Gonzalez, Virginia M. M.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Sage Publications, Inc.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patient Education: A Practical Approach

Kate Lorig provides the health professional with a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program. Discussions focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies, and selecting or preparing patient education materials. This volume is a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program. Chapters focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program-based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies and selecting or preparing

This volume is a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program.Chapters focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program-based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies and selecting or preparing patient education materials. The author makes recommendations on how to work effectively with culturally diverse populations and with difficult patients and on how to deal with compliance problems.

Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the Canadian edition of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world.

Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: For Ongoing Physical and Mental Health Conditions

Holman MD, Halsted

González MPH, Virginia

Minor PT PhD, Marian

Laurent MPH, Diana

Sobel MD, David

Bull Publishing Company

Vivre en Santé avec une Maladie Chronique: Pour des problèmes de santé physique ou mentale de longue durée (French Edition)

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