Coordinating healthcare in Australia -- Acute and chronic care approaches -- Beyond the acute care paradigm -- Economic and social benefits of self-management -- Compression of morbidity : living a healthier and longer life -- The self-management rationale -- The ethics of self-management -- Self-management : an ideological perspective -- The paradox of self-management -- Population health -- Sustainable health care -- A curriculum framework for learning about life management -- Environmental health and the self-management dilemma -- Sustainable health systems change -- Empowerment and the health care consumer -- Gambling addiction as an emerging context for self-management -- Early intervention training and peer education -- The health care industry revisited : a glimpse of the future -- Consumer case studies -- Health aphorisms.
