Maintaining Health in Primary Care: Guidelines for Wellness in the 21st Century - Softcover

The book provides a comprehensive, easily accessible source of information to aid practitioners with the education of their patients and to help them to take increasing responsibility for improving and maintaining their own health.

The book is supported by a Website providing free access to patient education materials. These include the patient handouts referred to in the text. The handouts available on the website are indicated in the text by the icon W. All the handouts are stored in a format which ensures that they can be printed out easily.

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 sensibly
Part 2 looks at developing good habits and introduces protocols to help individuals to establish a healthy lifestyle
Part 3 deals with cahnging risky behaviours and looks particularly at protocols for dealing with drug and alcohol abuse, smoking and stress
Part 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.

Jenny Jamison is a qualified medical doctor. She also has doctorates in Education and Publich Health as well as a PhD. Her particular expertise is in medical and health education. She is an expert in teaching strategies and their application to health care and patient education.
She is author of another CL title - Differential Diagnosis -for Primary Practice, which was published in Jan 99 since when it has sold 3000 copies of which 1220 have been to the USA.
Jamison has worked in South Africa and the USA as well as in Australia and is well known in those countries. She teaches to chiropractic and comp therapy students as well as to medical and allied health undergraduates.