The Special Interest Group on Health Behaviour Change is the global group that
focusses on behaviour change projects. The Convenor is Dr Rick Botelho of
Rochester, USA.
There is also an Asia Pacific section of the global group
(see details below).
Richard
J. Botelho, MD
Convenor, Special Interest Group on Health Behaviour Change
Family Medicine Centre
885 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620
USA
Ph 1 716 442 7470 ext. 508
Fax 1 716 758 1950
Email rick_botelho@urmc.rochester.edu
Dr Rick Bothello will be presenting the following abstracts on Health Behaviour Change at the Basel and Hong Kong conferences in 2009.
Click here to find out more about: 'Helping Yourself and Your Patients Change' and 'Using Web Technologies to Generate Social Movements'.
Wonca Special Interest Group on Health Behaviour Change - Asia Pacific Region
Overview
The Asia Pacific section of this Special Interest Group was established during the Asia Pacific Wonca Regional Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2000. Membership is open to all who have an interest in promoting health and behaviour change in the Asia Pacific Region.
Mission
Promoting health through Behaviour Change
Objectives
* To foster communication, networking and collaboration among family medicine practitioners/general practitioners and organisations who are interested in behavioural change projects in the Asia-Pacific Region.
* To develop a resource for health practitioners to educate about Behaviour Change with a particular emphasis on the implementation of practice-based strategies that promote Behaviour Change.
* To develop a resource which encourages health practitioners to have a more 'global view' of health and in so doing, improve their ability to effect the infrastructure of health promotion in their society.
Executive Committee - Asia Pacific Region
Professor Brian McAvoy (Regional Chair), Australia brian281@tpg.com.au
Dr John Litt (Co-Chair), Australia jlitt@flinders.edu.au
Professor Goh Lee Gan (Co-Chair), Singapore cofgohlg@nus.edu.sg
Professor Jim Dickinson (Co-Chair), Hong Kong jad@cuhk.edu.hk
Useful Links
Educational Resources on Tobacco
The Wonca Special Interest Group on Health Behaviour Change has compiled a list of informative websites for family doctors on tobacco cessation and tobacco control. To view this educational resource, click here.
RACGP Green Book http://www.racgp.org.au
"Putting Prevention into Practice" - commonly called the Green Book is a plainly written evidence-based monograph from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners that should assist GPs to be more effective in the implementation of preventive care in the practice setting. To access this book - go to the RACGP homepage at http://www.racgp.org.au , click on "Our Publications" , then click on "Green Book" and download the book as a PDF file.
Canadian Preventive Task Force http://www.ctfphc.org
This website is designed to serve as a practical guide to health care providers, planners and consumers for determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions, using the evidence-based recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC).
New Zealand Guidelines Group http://www.nzgg.org.nz
This website acts as a reference source for guideline material in New Zealand. Guideline topics include preventive health interventions (for example "tobacco cessation") as well as management guidelines (for example "Care of people with Chronic Leg Ulcers").
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