Conference Program

Session 1: CDSM: International & National Perspectives • Why is high quality self-management for chronic conditions imperative for Australian health care
Session 2: What is the breadth and depth of self-management interventions? • Self-Management at the coalface: the Flinders model of clinician administered self-management support • Self-management education en mass: Effectiveness of a population based multi-media campaign "Back pain, don't take it lying down" • Why is the vision for chronic disease self-management important to the Private Health insurance Industry?
Session 3: Operationalisation of self-management across Australia • Developing the capacity of the primary healthcare sector to respond to chronic disease Victorian initiatives • System changes to increase Self Management support in South Australia • Self-management policy initiatives in QueenslandSelf-management policy initiatives in Western Australia
Session 4: Key Issues in the operationalisation of self-management in Australia
Session 5: Chronic Disease Self-Management: The Way Forward Where to from here?