Patient Motivation and Education

“The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it”…( HIPPOCRATES ) The problem today is to transfer patient agreement in the office to patient agreement in other environments such as daily activities at home, at work, at recreation, and at the dinner table. Behavioral scientists have expended considerable effort to provide us with greater understanding of the dynamics of motivation that are practical in the doctor-patient relationship. This book will review some literature in patient motivation and health education with the view of relating principles, approaches and concepts to health situations and problems.