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Title:Tomando control de su salud : Una guía para el manejo de las enfermedades del corazón, diabetes, asma, bronquitis, enfisema y otros problemas crónicos
Author:Virginia González MPH, María Hernández-Marin, Kate Lorig RN Dr PH, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD, Diana Laurent MPH & Marian Minor RPT PhD
ISBN:1933503092 : 9781933503097
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:416
Weight: 1.006 Kg.
Published:Bull Publishing Company - January 2003
List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Latin-American Spanish: Popular medicine


Text in Spanish. Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimise side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions. Written by six medical professionals, this book encourages an individual approach to the process, with the ultimate goal being greater self-management. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University with hundreds of volunteers, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and thousands of people with chronic conditions all over the world. (Lleno de cientos de consejos, sugerencias y estrategias, esta guía explica como desarrollar y mantener programas de nutrición y ejercicio, manejar síntomas, determinar cuando es necesario pedir ayuda médica, trabajar efectivamente con doctores, encontrar programas comunitarios, discutir la enfermedad con la familia y como adaptar ciertas actividades sociales a diferentes condiciones. Escrito por seis médicos profesionales, este libro respalda una perspectiva individual al proceso -- la meta siendo el mejor manejo propio de la salud. Basado originalmente en un estudio de cinco años en la Universidad de Stanford con cientos de voluntarios, esta obra ha crecido a incluir las reacciones de médicos y pacientes alrededor del mundo.)