Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Coordinating healthcare in Australia
  • Acute and chronic care approaches
  • Beyond the acute care paradigm
  • Economic and social benefits of self-management
  • Compression of morbidity : living a healthier and longer life
  • The self-management rationale
  • The ethics of self-management
  • Self-management : an ideological perspective
  • The paradox of self-management
  • Population health
  • Sustainable health care
  • A curriculum framework for learning about life management
  • Environmental health and the self-management dilemma
  • Sustainable health systems change
  • Empowerment and the health care consumer
  • Gambling addiction as an emerging context for self-management
  • Early intervention training and peer education
  • The health care industry revisited : a glimpse of the future
  • Consumer case studies
  • Health aphorisms.