Synchronizing the patient-centered model and health behavior change

Evaluating organizational change in health care: the patient-centered hospital model

BACKGROUND An increasing number of hospitals react to recent demographic, epidemiological and managerial challenges moving from a traditional organizational model to a Patient-Centered (PC) hospital model. Although the theoretical managerial literature on the PC hospital model is vast, quantitative evaluations of the performance of hospitals that moved from the traditional to the PC organizatio...

The transtheoretical model of health behavior change.

The transtheoretical model posits that health behavior change involves progress through six stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. Ten processes of change have been identified for producing progress along with decisional balance, self-efficacy, and temptations. Basic research has generated a rule of thumb for at-risk populations: 40...

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

Patient Centered Care Model

Multi-theory model of behavior change: an appropriate model for creating health behaviors

  Evolving evidence shows that health promotion interventions that explicitly use models and theories that are rooted in social and behavioral sciences, are more effective than interventions without a theoretical framework [1]. Testing theories and models is a critical step that should be conducted before utilizing them for intervention development [2].