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Better Choices, Better Health
Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
in New Hampshire
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Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, also known as "Better Choices, Better Health," is a six-week program that runs for 2 ½ hours each week in community settings, senior centers, and physicians offices. People with different chronic health problems attend the program together. Workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders, one or both of whom are non-health professionals (referred to as lay leaders) with chronic diseases themselves.
What is covered in the program?
  • ​Disease related problem solving
  • Communication skills
  • Managing emotions
  • Exercise
  • Developing patient/physician partnership​
  • Use of community resources
  • Nutrition
  • Managing medications
  • Advanced directives
  • Cognitive symptom management
  • Program Outcomes
The Division of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stanford University developed, tested and evaluated this program and found the following:
  • Subjects who took the program, when compared to those who did not, demonstrated significant improvements in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities and limitations
  • Spent fewer days in the hospital
  • Trend toward fewer outpatient visits and hospitalizations
  • Cost to savings ratio of 1:10
For more information about program outcomes and Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management program, visit their website.
Click here to view our most recent Semi-Annual Data Cut!
For workshops in Cheshire, Sullivan, Merrimack, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Strafford Counties please contact:
Nitanga Jean De Dieu, Southern NH AHEC Program Coordinator
128 State Route 27, Raymond, NH 03077 | (603) 244-7360 l email nitanga@snhahec.org 

For workshops in Coos, Carroll, Grafton, and Belknap Counties please contact:
Carolyn Schofield, Northern NH AHEC/North Country Health Consortium
262 Cottage Street, Suite 230, Littleton, NH 03561 | (603) 575-9078 x719 | cschofield@nchcnh.org
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