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The health improvement profile (HIP) : a manual to promote physical wellbeing in people with severe mental illness / Sheila Hardy, Jacquie White, Richard Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Sheila, author.
- White, Jacquie, author.
- Gray, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Care.
- Mentally ill.
- People with mental disabilities--Care.
- People with mental disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cumbria, [England] : M&K Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This practical guide, written by experts in mental health nursing, is designed to support healthcare practitioners in checking the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI).As life expectancy is reduced by 12 to 19 years in people with SMI, this patient group should receive a physical health check at least once a year. Yet many mental health practitioners have not been trained to assess their physical health needs, and even when such training is offered it may be difficult to access it because of clinical workloads.The Health Improvement Profile (HIP) provides an efficient, ef
- Contents:
- Cover; Prelims; Contents; About the authors; Introduction; Chapter 1 What is severe mental illness?; Chapter 2 What treatments are used in severe mental illness?; Chapter 3 Systems of the body that are commonly affected in people with severe mental illness; Chapter 4 Common physical comorbidities in severe mental illness; Chapter 5 Cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness; Chapter 6 Problematic behaviours affecting health in people with severe mental illness; Chapter 7 How to use the Health Improvement Profile (physical health check tool)
- Chapter 8 Changing behaviour to improve healthAppendix 1 Health Improvement Profile (HIP) - Female; Appendix 2 Health Improvement Profile (HIP) - Male; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 8, 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781907836914
- OCLC:
- 908376674
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