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Factors Associated With Integrating Self-Management Support Into Primary Care, Richard Crespo, Molly Shrewsberry
Factors Associated With Integrating Self-Management Support Into Primary Care, Richard Crespo, Molly Shrewsberry
Richard Crespo
Purpose The purpose of this article is to expand the understanding of self-management support by describing factors that contribute to implementing a comprehensive self-management program in primary care. Methods Four rural health centers in medically underserved areas participated in a study to document the implementation of a self-management program. This program consisted of a social marketing plan and decision-making tools to guide patients in making self-management behavior changes. The stages of change constructs of the transtheoretical model were used to design the social marketing plan. Key informant interviews were conducted at 6-month and 9-month intervals to document the implementation process. …
Virtual Community Health Promotion, Richard Crespo
Virtual Community Health Promotion, Richard Crespo
Richard Crespo
The “wiki” and open-source phenomena are transforming the way knowledge is generated and shared around the world. The word wiki is from the Hawaiian term wiki-wiki, which means to do something quickly (1). The term became prominent because of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), which now has more than 2 million articles contributed by tens of thousands of people. People in so many fields are using Internet communities that the term wiki has come to refer to an online group that collectively works on a project. In the business world, the wiki concept is called wikinomics (1). Even U.S. spy …