Full Description
This comprehensive anthology on disease management focuses onintegrating health behavior change strategies into diseasemanagement practices. Changing Patient Behavior offers a solid,systematic approach to developing and implementing strategies toinfluence the patient's behavior in the context of health anddisease management programs.
Nationally known disease management authority Richard Pattersonhas assembled a stellar lineup of contirubtions from fifteen majorhealth experts, creating an indispensable guide to making thepatient integral to the management of his or her own health.RichardPatterson is executive vice president, director of development forHealthAnswers, Inc., a business-to-business health management andwellness services company.
Contents
Foreword (J. Prochaska).
The New Focus: Integrating Behavioral Science into DiseaseManagement (R. Patterson).
THE ROLE OF PATIENT BEHAVIOR IN HEALTH AND DISEASEMANAGEMENT.
Utilizing Theories and Constructs Across Models of BehaviorChange (K. Glanz & B. Oldenburg).
Applying the Theory: Models of Behavior Change (C. Cafiero &F. Carness).
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGINGHEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOR.
Changing Behavior and Environment: How to Plan Theory- andEvidence-Based Disease Management Programs (L. Bartholomew, etal.).
Using Telephone-Based Interventions (T. Mason).
METHODS AND OPTIONS FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTIONS.
Implementing Behavior Change Methods (C. Cafiero & F.Carness).
Connecting People and Technologies for Disease Management (D.Newton & N. Sofian).
Measuring and Improving the Intervention (M. Toscani & L.Pizzi).
Selecting Variables and Constructs to Measure (J.Biskupiak).
Afterword.
Index.
