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Unending Work and Care: Managing Chronic Illness at Home

Diane J. Omdahl
- 01 Apr 1989 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 2, pp 201-202
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This article is published in Patient Education and Counseling.The article was published on 1989-04-01. It has received 323 citations till now.

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Chronic disease self-management program: 2-year health status and health care utilization outcomes.

TL;DR: A low-cost program for promoting health self-management can improve elements of health status while reducing health care costs in populations with diverse chronic diseases.
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Posttraumatic growth after breast cancer: patient, partner, and couple perspectives.

TL;DR: Posttraumatic growth among breast cancer patients and their significant others over a 11/2-year time span after diagnosis is evaluated and cognitive and emotional processes in posttraumatic growth are examined.
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Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness.

TL;DR: Burden of Treatment Theory is a structural model that focuses on the work that patients and their networks do that helps to understand variations in healthcare utilization and adherence in different healthcare settings and clinical contexts.
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Disability, work, and welfare challenging the social exclusion of disabled people

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people's exclusion from the workplace is provided, and it is argued that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people' perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
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Information behavior and information practice: reviewing the umbrella concepts of information-seeking studies

TL;DR: Information behavior and information practice, two major concepts denoting the general ways in which people deal with information, are analyzed in this article, and a comparative study of the above concepts and discourses serves the needs to generate a self-reflective attitude to familiar discursive formations, in particular among researchers of information seeking.
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Chronic disease self-management program: 2-year health status and health care utilization outcomes.

TL;DR: A low-cost program for promoting health self-management can improve elements of health status while reducing health care costs in populations with diverse chronic diseases.
Journal ArticleDOI

Posttraumatic growth after breast cancer: patient, partner, and couple perspectives.

TL;DR: Posttraumatic growth among breast cancer patients and their significant others over a 11/2-year time span after diagnosis is evaluated and cognitive and emotional processes in posttraumatic growth are examined.
Journal ArticleDOI

Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness.

TL;DR: Burden of Treatment Theory is a structural model that focuses on the work that patients and their networks do that helps to understand variations in healthcare utilization and adherence in different healthcare settings and clinical contexts.
Journal ArticleDOI

Disability, work, and welfare challenging the social exclusion of disabled people

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people's exclusion from the workplace is provided, and it is argued that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people' perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
Journal ArticleDOI

Information behavior and information practice: reviewing the umbrella concepts of information-seeking studies

TL;DR: Information behavior and information practice, two major concepts denoting the general ways in which people deal with information, are analyzed in this article, and a comparative study of the above concepts and discourses serves the needs to generate a self-reflective attitude to familiar discursive formations, in particular among researchers of information seeking.