SELF-MANAGEMENT OF LONG-TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS (A HANDBOOK FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC DISEASE)

This handbook draws on the material in the US Second Edition of "Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions" by Kate Lorig, Halsted Holman, David Sobel, Diana Laurent, Virginia Gonzalez, Marian Minor and Peg Harrison.
Keeping to the integrity of the US edition, Chapters 1-3 and 9 have been revised for UK users of the handbook. Some of the other chapters have been suitably modified. Disease-specific supplements commissioned by the Department of Health, England, will be issued separately to the handbook. These replace Chapters 9, 15, 16, 17 and 18 in the US edition. The handbook will be an evolving document. As users in the UK provide feedback on the handbook, changes may be made to it as necessary.