Primary Health Care Resource Centre

Self-Management

People with chronic health conditions often need support to improve their confidence, skills, knowledge and motivation to manage the physical, social and emotional impacts of their disease.

Health care providers are an important resource for providing self-management support. The following tools and information can help support health care providers with this role.

• Tips for Supporting Self-Management

Resources

• What is Self-Managing and Self-Management Support?
• Health Literacy: Learning is the Best Medicine (YouTube)
• AMA video on Health Literacy (YouTube)

Patient Programs

• Self-management program offered to adults with chronic conditions.
  • Better Choices, Better Health®
• Self-management program for adolescents and young adults living with chronic health conditions.
  • Be Your Own Boss

Provider Resources for Better Choices, Better Health®

• Better Choices, Better Health® Primer
• Host a workshop - Better Choices, Better Health®
• AHS Standard of Practice - Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs and Services
• Better Choices, Better Health®: New Evidence on Alberta-based Self-Management {Part 1}
• Better Choices, Better Health®: New Evidence on Alberta-based Self-Management {Part 2}
• Better Choices, Better Health®: Evaluation Results Infograph
• Better Choices, Better Health®: Infograph

Practice Support

• TRUTHFUL: A Method to Assist Patients with Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
• Finding health and wellness information on the Internet - a doctor's perspective