Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions : Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, and Others
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions : Self-Management of Heart Disease, Fatigue, Arthritis, Worry, Diabetes, Frustration, Asthma, Pain, Emphysema, and Others
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Author(s): Holman, Halsted
Laurent, Diana
Lorig, Kate
ISBN No.: 9781933503011
Pages: 384
Year: 200601
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 24.51
Status: Out Of Print

Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world. Lleno de cientos de consejos, sugerencias y estrategias, esta guia ofrece soluciones medicas practicas en un lenguaje claro y facil de entender. Explica como desarrollar y mantener programas de nutricion y ejercicio, manejar sintomas, determinar cuando es necesario pedir ayuda medica, trabajar efectivamente con doctores, encontrar programas comunitarios, discutir la enfermedad con la familia y como adaptar ciertas actividades sociales a diferentes condiciones. Escrito por seis medicos profesionales, este libro respalda una perspectiva individual al procesola meta siendo el mejor manejo propio de la salud. Basado originalmente en un estudio de cinco anos en la Universidad de Stanford con cientos de voluntarios, esta obra ha crecido a incluir las reacciones de medicos y pacientes alrededor del mundo.



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