Team workspace "When people live with multiple chronic disease: a collaborative approach to an emerging global challenge"

This is a live interactive document that seeks to facilitate a global collaborative effort to distill the best available knowledge on how to meet the challenges faced by people living with multiple chronic diseases.

Please make as many contributions as you consider appropriate by clicking on the comments green bubble that appears at the top right corner of each section. The document will become a book that will be released, in paper and digital format, in June of 2010, during Spain's presidency of the European Union. Only the contributions made before February 23rd, may appear in this first edition. Contributions are voluntary and the book will be free in its paper edition and it is available on the Internet.

The responsibility for the content rests with the contributors and does not necessarily represent the views of Junta de Andalucia or any other organization participating in this effort. Those individuals who make substantive additions will be invited to join the book as named contributors.

Now, go ahead, read, enjoy and leave your mark!

1. Why Complex Chronic Diseases? Why now? What  is going on around the word?
2. Prevention and health promotion
3. The language of poly-pathology and assessment of complexity
4. Disease management models
5. Patient education and self-management
6. Primary care, institutional services and integrated  management processes
7. Supportive care and palliative care
8. Demedicalization of care
9. Economic, social and political implications
10. The promise of Genomics, Robotics, Informatics/eHealth and Nanotechnologies (GRIN)
11. Towards a global collaborative approach to complex chronic disease management (In development)