By Dominika Kwasnicka, SWPS University, Poland and University of Melbourne, Australia The ultimate goal of health promotion programmes is to promote long-lasting change and health care professionals can play a role and help patients to improve their health outcomes and maintaining behaviour change. We know that health behaviour change is difficult to initiate and it […]
By Keegan Knittle, University of Helsinki, Finland Here’s a familiar story from primary care: an individual who would clearly benefit from more physical activity comes into the clinic. We discuss their physical (in)activity, and in the end, the person says they just aren’t motivated to change. What’s a clinician supposed to do? How can we […]
Stan Maes & Véronique De Gucht, Leideno Universitas, Nyderlandai Per pastaruosius dešimtmečius individo vaidmuo sveikatos priežiūros sistemoje plėtojosi nuo „medicinos režimo laikymosi“, reiškiančio paklusnumą, iki „savęs valdymo“ reiškiančio atsakomybę už savo sveikatos ir ligos kontrolę. Pastaruoju metu, dėmesys susitelkė ties savireguliacijos sąvoka, išreiškiančia sisteminį procesą, kuris įjungia asmens su sveikata susijusių tikslų nustatymą ir elgesį […]
