Chronic diseases community
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- The Complex Web of Health: Relationships Among Chronic Conditions, Disability, and Health Services Posted on 01/07/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- The escalating problem of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) among Americans is now a major public health and medical challenge, associated with suboptimal health outcomes and rising health-care expenses. chronic disease, chronic illness, disorders, expenditures, guidelines, hospitalization, people, prevalence, primary-care, self-management program
- Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Strategic Framework for Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life Posted on 01/07/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- The escalating problem of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) among Americans is now a major public health and medical challenge, associated with suboptimal health outcomes and rising health-care expenses. chronic disease, chronic illness, disorders, elf-management program, expenditures, guidelines, hospitalization, people, prevalence, primary-care
- Chronic disease self-management for individuals with stroke, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury Posted on 10/06/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of people with neurological conditions who take the chronic disease self-management (CDSM) programme. The CDSM programme is used to teach ... chronic illness, multiple sclerosis, self-efficacy, self-management, spinal cord injury, stroke
- The role of patient activation in frequent attendance at primary care: A population-based study of people with chronic disease Posted on 10/06/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- The objective is to study explores a range of relevant socio-demographic, physical and psychological factors in a unique examination of the risk factors for frequent attendance at primary care. The ... chronic illness, frequent attenders, health service utilisation, patient activation
- "We're just not getting it right" How should we provide care to the older person with multi-morbid chronic conditions? Posted on 06/05/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- Aims and objectives.? The aim was to review available literature on research and service evaluation evidence of nurse-led case management services targeting older people with multiple chronic conditions in their ... case management, chronic illness, community, comorbidity, multimorbid, nurse, older person
- WHO warns of enormous burden of chronic disease Posted on 27/04/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- (Reuters) - Chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease and diabetes have reached global epidemic proportions and now cause more deaths than all other diseases combined, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said ... chronic disease, chronic illness
- Chronic Illness, Comorbidity, and Primary Care Quality Posted on 15/02/2011 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- This paper provides the basis for rethinking the concept of “chronicity” as represented by conventional, biomedically oriented “chronic diseases” by showing how a wide range of semi-acute and acute conditions ... chronic illness, comorbidity, primary care
- Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice Posted on 08/11/2010 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
- Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice presents recent developments in chronic illness research and their implications for clinical practice. It delivers both a synthesis and a critique of current chronic ... chronic illness, co-morbidities, models, self-management, trends
- Internal medicine in Spain Posted on 19/05/2010 by Diana Gosalvez Prados
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Patients who are seen by internists seldom have a single, well-defined nosological entity. More often they are elderly patients with marginal pluripathology who have associated chronic or terminal illness with ...
chronic illness, internal medicine, pluripathology, terminal illness - A new model for healthcare Posted on 02/07/2009 by Equipo editorial
- Chronic illness affects more than 67% of Europeans who are more than 65 years old (Eurostat 2008), and up to half of all healthcare spending is now used to treat ... chronic illness, healthcare, modelos













