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“This book covers different approaches to health management with a focus on prevention, health promotion, and patient self-management. … This book appears to be intended for undergraduate and graduate nursing professionals and is suitable for both. It offers a comprehensive overview of concepts related to health promotion and best-practice interventions and is written in a way that can be understood by both levels of nursing professionals.” (Cheryl Leiningen, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2018)
“This book covers different approaches to health management with a focus on prevention, health promotion, and patient self-management. … This book appears to be intended for undergraduate and graduate nursing professionals and is suitable for both. It offers a comprehensive overview of concepts related to health promotion and best-practice interventions and is written in a way that can be understood by both levels of nursing professionals.” (Cheryl Leiningen, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2018)
Dr. Barbara Sassen is currently a senior lecturer and post-doc researcher at the University of Applied Science, Faculty of Health Care, University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She received her PhD degree in 2011 at Maastricht University, with the title 'Supporting healthcare professionals to encourage patients to decrease cardiovascular risk attributable to physical inactivity'. In this PhD research she developed an intervention strategy for the implementation of health promotion and self management in the professional practice by nurses and paramedics. She studied health sciences, health promotion and health education at Maastricht University. She also studied the course training linked to the Master Educational sciences, at the University of Utrecht and finished a Bachelor in Nursing with professional experience as a nurse in the mental health care and outpatient care.Her interest is directed at the proper implementation of health promotion, disease prevention and self management by health care professionals working in the health care system.