AlignMap In Cites
AlignMap In Cites offers annotated links to web sites, news, research, and other material relevant to treatment adherence & patient compliance. AlignMap In Cites, the AlignMap Web Site, the AlignMap Weblog, and the AlignMap Furl Archive are produced by Allan Showalter, MD
Feb 26, 2008
8:41am
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Activists’ attitudes about managing their physical and mental health can be summed up in thoughts such as: ‘I believe I can do whatever must be done, and I’m willing to do it!’
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- Curing Healthcare: The Whole-Person Integrated-Care (WPIC) Wellness Solution: Part 2 Quote is from Steve Beller, PhD, (full disclosure: I know Steve and have discussed working with him in the past although nothing has yet come of that. I also think he’s on the right track about healthcare reform) who writes, in this post, about using different approaches to healthcare with different subgroups of patients. This post includes a description of one of those population segments, Activists. His grouping of patients is similar to but not identical with segmentation proposed in a McKinsey study (see Patient Segmentation By Medication Compliance Attitudes) and in work done by a group of my own colleagues (soon to be available online).
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