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Promoting Health through Organizational Change
Harvey Skinner, University of Toronto

ISBN-10: 0205341594
ISBN-13: 9780205341597

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 288 pp
Published: 09/14/2001
Status: Instock

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Promoting Health though Organizational Change provides students, practitioners, and health professionals with a thorough understanding of the complexities of health behavior organizations in today's world.

With a framework based on the strategies of Dr. Skinner's proven Five-Step Model, Promoting Health approaches health behavior change in a comprehensive way. By bridging the gap between patients and organizations, this text teaches students and health professionals how to productively focus their energies on improvement initiatives and how to develop the practical skills necessary for effecting change.

TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE — Four chapters are dedicated entirely to the new role of information technology in health organization: how it can support practitioners and patients, how it can motivate behavior change, how anyone can use the Internet for “e-Health,” and what consumers think of “e-Health.”

The Five-Step Model provides both a process and a structure for implementing change that will positively effect health care behavior and relationships between patients and health organizations.

Each chapter opens first with a quick overview of the contents and then a “study section” that begins with a question and discussion to evoke deep thought on the chapter contents before the reader has even read the chapter.

Case studies engage the reader in the subject matter discussed in each chapter.

Practical self-study tools are provided throughout the book, allowing readers to analyze, measure and test their performance on the chapter material.

GUIDE.

1. About Promoting Health.

I. RE-ORIENTING HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS.

2. Problems and Solutions.

3. Beyond Clinical Care.

4. Improving the Organization.

5. Putting Behavioral Change into Practice.

6. Practitioner Perspectives on Organizational Change.

7. What Motivates People to Change.

II. FIVE STEPS FOR IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONS.

8. The Five Step Model.

9. Step 1: Developing Motivation for Change.

10. Step 2: Strengthening Capacities for Improvement.

11. Step 3: Identifying Strategic Directions in Behavior Change.

12. Step 4: Conducting a Critical Functions Analysis.

13. Step 5: Improvement Using Rapid Cycle Change.

14. Sustaining the Momentum for Positive Change.

III. E-HEALTH: THE NEW ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

15. Information Technology to Support Practitioners and Patients.

16. Computer Systems that Motivate Behavior Change.

17. TeenNet: Using the Internet for e-Health.

18. Consumers Perspectives on e-Health.

AFTERWORD.

19. Initiating Your Personal and Organizational Learning Plan.

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