Changing Patient Behavior: Improving Outcomes in Health and Disease Management

Hardcover: 238 pages
ISBN 0787952796
978-0787952792
Jossey-Bass
January 2001
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This comprehensive anthology on disease management focuses on integrating health behavior change strategies into disease management practices.

Changing Patient Behavior offers a solid, systematic approach to developing and implementing strategies to influence the patient's behavior in the context of health and disease management programs.

Nationally known disease management authority Richard Patterson has assembled a stellar lineup of contributions from fifteen major health experts, creating an indispensable guide to making the patient integral to the management of his or her own health. The contents of this book include:

The New Focus: Integrating Behavioral Science into Disease Management (R. Patterson).
Utilizing Theories and Constructs Across Models of Behavior Change (K. Glanz & B. Oldenburg).
Applying the Theory: Models of Behavior Change (C. Cafiero & F. Carness).
Changing Behavior and Environment: How to Plan Theory- and Evidence-Based Disease Management Programs (L. Bartholomew, et al.).
Using Telephone-Based Interventions (T. Mason).
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).

Under the editorial direction of Richard Patterson, a nationally respected disease management authority, the contributors have created a comprehensive guide to effective disease management strategies.

Richard Patterson, the editor, is executive vice president, director of development for HealthAnswers, Inc., a business-to-business health management and wellness service company. He was the founder and managing director of Hastings Outcomes Management, a health and disease management company located in Pennington, New Jersey.

Written by a stellar panel of experts and educators, Changing Patient Behavior introduces an innovative strategy for improving outcomes of the management of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and asthma. This systematic approach centers on integrating the patient into the overall process of health and disease management rather than putting the focus on the clinical management of the disease.

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