In This Issue: Teachable Moments for Patients, Practices, and Systems

Doctors’ recommendations and healthy lifestyle behaviors among individuals with hypertension in Brazil

“… Flocke and Stange (2004) argued that a diagnosis or health event creates an opportunity/opening for people to pay attention to doctors’ recommendations. Stange (2018) further argued that a TM occurs when 1) communication about an unhealthy behavior becomes relevant, 2) a link between a patient's concern and health behavior is likely to motivate changes, and 3) a patient is willing to discuss behavioral changes ( Stange, 2018 ).…”