Health self-management group in Shanghai / 上海预防医学
Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine
; (12): 735-738, 2016.
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en Zh
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ABSTRACT
Health self-management group adopts the mode of chronic disease self-management and offers a series of courses for community residents in order to help them carry out health self-management. For healthy people, the program aims at disease prevention by means of improving health literacy, acquiring health knowledge and skills, and developing a healthy lifestyle.While for patients, the program aims to prevent or slow the progression of diseases by means of helping them deal with their condition, achieving disease self-management. By nearly ten years of exploration and practice in Shanghai communities, with the program a working system had been established which was dominated by patriotic health campaign committee office at the levels of city and district, and technologically supported by centers for disease control and prevention with support and cooperation of the town government.The program was implemented by community health service centers and neighborhood ( village ) committee.A large-scale and whole-society promotion had been really achieved in community residents with health self-management. By the end of 2015, health self-management groups had covered all of the city's streets ( town ) and neighborhood ( village ) committee, 26 thousand groups set up and nearly 440 thousand community residents participated in group activities.
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Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine
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2016
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