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Integrating Health Behavior Change
Action Plan Participant: 
Healthy City and Boston University Medical Center

Edward Bernstein, M.D., of the Boston University School of Medicine instructs the medical personnel in the Screening, Brief Intervention to Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) strategy for getting patients to initiate or maintain health behavior changes such as quitting smoking, losing weight, getting regular exercise or reducing the use of alcohol. Healthy City Fall River is working with the St. Anne's Emergency Department to teach these skills to local providers.

Health Education

3, A) nutrition and diabetes education, and B) tobacco education and C) physical fitness education

Goal:

To increase provider skills in getting patients to initiate or maintain health behavior changes such as losing weight, quitting smoking, or getting regular exercise

Method(s):

Provide educational opportunities to local medical care providers on the SBIRT methodology

March 19, 2008

The number of skilled medical care providers

How citizens can  get involved:

Encourage medical care providers to learn these skills

Contact Healthy City Fall River coordinator David Weed, Psy.D., at 508-324-2411, or Dan Mahoney at St. Anne's Hospital Emergency Department at 508-674-5600, Ext.5514.