Maintaining Health in Primary Care

Maintaining Health in Primary Care is the guide book for today's health practitioner. It is a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information to help primary care practitioners with the education of their patients.A compendium of information that no practitioner concerned with health promotion can afford to be without.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 sensiblyPart 2 looks at developing good habits and introduces protocols to help individuals to establish a healthy lifestylePart 3 deals with cahnging risky behaviours and looks particularly at protocols for dealing with drug and alcohol abuse, smoking and stressPart 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 demandHelps with today's aim of increasing the emphasis on health promotion rather than on the treatment of diseaseShows how to help clients take increased responsibility for their own health careDemonstrates how to make more informed selective use of professional health careAddresses the questions and concerns most frequently raised by individuals regarding their health and disease preventionPresents a model for developing a personal health contract that patients can implementProvides easy-to-use protocols for many common scenariosIncludes Professional Posters giving step-by-step guidance to the practitioner on different aspects of health education.