tailieunhanh - Continuing Education Programmes for Health Care Providers in the Field of Prevention of Chronic Diseases

Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) enables people with chronic diseases to manage their illness and yields benefits in both health and financial terms. Many health care providers, however, lack the skills to provide their patients with such an education. The Regional Office therefore convened a working group to prepare a document specifying the content of programmes for teaching health care providers to provide TPE. The Working Group comprised doctors, nurses, other health care providers and educators from countries throughout the European Region. The Group developed a document that defines TPE, specifies the different skills that patients with chronic diseases should be. | World Health Organization I Regional Office for Europe V 7 Copenhagen Therapeutic Patient Education Continuing Education Programmes for Health Care Providers in the Field of Prevention of Chronic Diseases Report of a WHO Working Group 1998 ISBN 92 890 1298 6 1998 EUR ICP QCPH 01 01 03 ORIGINAL ENGLISH Abstract Therapeutic Patient Education TPE enables people with chronic diseases to manage their illness and yields benefits in both health and financial terms. Many health care providers however lack the skills to provide their patients with such an education. The Regional Office therefore convened a working group to prepare a document specifying the content of programmes for teaching health care providers to provide TPE. The Working Group comprised doctors nurses other health care providers and educators from countries throughout the European Region. The Group developed a document that defines TPE specifies the different skills that patients with chronic diseases should be taught and describes the content and structure of several TPE programmes of increasing complexity. The Group also identified obstacles to be overcome and recommended action to be undertaken by health care institutions and educators countries and WHO and its collaborating centres as well as health industries health insurance providers and the media. Keywords PATIENT EDUCATION CHRONIC DISEASE HEALTH PERSONNEL - education TEACHING MATERIALS EUROPE World Health Organization All rights in this document are reserved by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The document may nevertheless be freely reviewed abstracted reproduced or translated into any other language but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes provided that full acknowledgement is given to the source. For the use of the WHO emblem permission must be sought from the WHO Regional Office. Any translation should include the words The translator of this document is responsible for the accuracy of the translation. The .