Quo Vadis, Medicus? : health behaviour among health professionals and students / Ida Laudanska-Krzeminska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laudanska-Krzeminska, Ida, author.

Contributor:

Kougioumtzis, Konstantin, editor.

Adamakis, Manolis, editor.

Scully, Deirdre M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health behavior.

Lifestyles--Health aspects.

Lifestyles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The book discusses the health condition of Polish current and future health professionals. The study was conducted on around 800 medical staff members (in-training and professional). The author analyses nutrition behaviour, physical activity, smoking, drinking alcohol and their psycho-social determinants (health self-assessment, value of health, health locus of control, health related self-efficacy). The educational and behavioural needs of the investigated group depend on career stage and profession. As a result, there is a need for health promotional programs targeting carefully chosen medical staff groups, with an emphasis on their special health needs. The expectation that physicians or other medical professionals will heal themselves proves to be futile in this part of Europe. This should be a starting point in a discussion about the role of health providers in modelling health behaviours and health promotion counselling for their patients. Reflection is needed especially among health related professionals in different institutions (e.g., universities, schools, hospitals), health societies and non-profit organisations involved in health promotion, insurance and health companies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Health Behaviour and Health Status - What do We Bring to the 3rd Millennium?

2. Psychosocial Determinants of Health Behaviour - Can We Modify the Lifestyle ?

3. Health Behaviour of Health Professionals - What Should it Be Like?

4. Health behaviour and its determinants

5. Current and Future Health Professionals as "Role Models " for Patients (Clients) - Implications for the Health Promotion Programme

Bibliography

List of Figures

List of Tables

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783110470758

3110470756

9783110472172

3110472171

OCLC:

979906633