Global Self Management Support Alliance is an international network of self management support promotion, comprised by health care institutions, research teams, policy makers, health care providers and patients. At the webpage www.globalalliancesms.org it is the official web of the Alliance, that it was presented on the 2nd Chronic Care Congress, held in Alexandria, United States, on the last Jue 3rd 2008.

Its aim is to facilitate the collaborative work among their members globally and to help instit utions and individuals to develop their own self management programs under the criteria of the GSMA´s Quality Assurance Framework.

Evidence body

Self Management support has been proposed as one of the key actions to develop the new Chronic Care Model by the World Health Organization. There are different kind of interventions, at the practice office level, lead by health providers or others such as the Chronic Disease Self Management Programme (CDSMP), lead by patients with chronic diseases.

Although more than 50 clinical trials have been carry out in the last 10-15 years, strong evidence is lacking about the risk-benefit balance to implement this kinds of interventions as a regular service on the health care systems. Working basically with volunteers, differences between US-Europe people and not standarized outcome measures are some of the reasons for this research/clinical gap.

GSMSA Coordinator

Manuel Serrano. Expert Patient Programme.  

                               Education, Health and Society Foundation  (Spain)  

Advisory Board (by alphabetic order)

-  Raymond. Aytken   Amara Association. (Portugal).

-  Julie  Barlow  Universidad de Coventry  (United Kingdom)

-  Rafael  Bengoa,  Observatorio Kroniker. ESADE Escuela de Negocios. (Spain)

-  Austin  Chang   Cambridge Health Alliance. (United States).

-  Jane  Cooper   Expert Patient Programme  (United Kingdom)

-  Penelope  Doue   Lay Led Self Management Network  (United Kingdom) 

-  Kathy  Foss   Masspro  (United States)

-  Rachel  Gondwe   Arthritis Care  ((United Kingdom)

-  Przemyslaw  Kardas  Universidad de Lodz.  (Poland)

-  Anne  Kennedy    Universidad de Manchester  (United Kingdom)

-  Charlotte K.  Kimbi.   AstraZeneca  (Denmark)

-  Meera  Kulkarni   Improvement Foundation  (United Kingdom)

-  Kate Lorig  Patient Education Research Center. University of Stanford. (United States).

-  Birgitta  Lundberg   Blekinge County  (Sweden)

-  Fiona  Martin   Health Foundation.   (United Kingdom)

-  Patrick  McGowan   Centre on Aging  (Canada)

-  Doriane C. Miller   New Health Partnerships  (United States)

-  Richard. Osborne  Centre for Rheumatic Diseases. University of Melbourne  (Australia).

-  Jhon  Ovretveit  Karolinska Institutet  (Sweden)

-  Anne  Rogers   Universidad de Manchester  (United Kingdom)

-  Sagartuite. Rutas  Universidad de Vilnius  (Lituania) 

-  Judith  Schaefer   MacColl Institute  (United States)

-   Manuel  Serrano  Programa Paciente Experto.    

                                    Fundación Educación, Salud, y Sociedad   (Spain)

-   Andy  Turner  Universidad de Coventry.  (United Kingdom) 

-   Marianne  Ween  Association for Adapted Adult Education  (Noruega) 

Australia:

-  La Trobe University, Australian Institute for Primary Care

- The University of Melbourne, Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Royal  Melbourne Hospital

-  Flinders University       

 Canada:

-  Health in action

-  University of Victoria. Centre on Aging

-  Columbia United Providers

China:

-  Fudan University, School of Public Health. Department of Preventive Medicine

-  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences         

Japan:

-  Saga Medical School Department of Adult & Gerontological Nursing

Netherlands:

-  Maastricht University, School for Public Health and Primary Care

-  University Medical Center, Groningen

Norway:

- Association for Adapted Adult Education in Norway (Funksjonshemmedes Studieforbund)

Spain:

-   Programa Paciente Experto

-  .Observatorio Kroniker

Sweden:

- The Country Council of Blekinge, Primary Health Care

United Kingdom:

- Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and the London Queen Mary´s School of Medicine and Dentistry

- Coventry University. Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Health, School of Health & Social Sciences

- University  of Manchester. National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.

- Expert Patient Programme

-  LMCA

- Health Foundation. Cocreating

- Health Programme

-  Arthritis Care

-  The Positive Place

-  Picker Institute 

-  University of London

United States:

-  Center for the Advancement of Health

- Stanford Patient Education Research Center.

-  Kaiser Permanente

-  MacColl Institute for Health Care Innovation

-  Mercy Clinics

-  Brown´s  University

-  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

-  IHI-Newhealthpartnerships

-  University of California Davis. Department of Family and Community Medicine.

-   Ontario Patient Self Management Network

-  Center for Outcomes Studies, Western States Chiropractic College

-  National Council on Aging

-  Alamo Area Council of Governments

-  California Healthcare Foundation

-   Institute for Healthcare Improvement

-  Whatcom County Pursuing Perfection Project

-  Improving Chronic Care

-  RAND corporation

Wales:

- Expert Patients Programme Wales

Mexico:

- Proyecto Vida-Panamerican Health Organization