TY  - BOOK
ED  - World Health Organization.
TI  - Therapeutic patient education: continuing education programmes for health care providers in the field of prevention of chronic diseases : report of a WHO working group
SN  - 9289012986
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Copenhagen
PB  - WHO Regional Office for Europe
KW  - Patient education
KW  - Chronic disease
KW  - prevention and control
KW  - Health personnel
KW  - education
KW  - Education, Medical, Continuing
KW  - Preventive health services
KW  - Competency-based education
KW  - Teaching materials
KW  - Europe
N1  - EURO; HQ
N2  - 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
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