title: [Therapeutic patient education: the need for a comprehensive, coordinated and sutainable approach].
abstract: Therapeutic patient education has gradually developed for 20 years in France but not in a structured way. Today, therapeutic patient education has found legal consecration with the law of July 21,2009 (HPST), completed by a statute in August 2010. The development of chronic diseases therefore is monitored by a more global planning of the care, particularly in towns, with local coordination to meet the needs of the population and long-lasting financing.
authors: Dominique
authors: D
authors: Peljak
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence