What is the concept of chronicity?
Chronicity: The state of being chronic, having a long duration.
What is chronicity of a disease?
Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.
What are the principles of chronic disease management?
The principles of chronic disease management: care planning, evidence based practice, patient centred care, clinical information systems, teamwork and community resources, are applicable in various ways to many chronic diseases and health priority areas.
What is the expanded chronic care model?
The Expanded Chronic Care Model (Expanded CCM) presents a systematic way of understanding health care team efforts to reduce the burden of chronic diseases among patients living with the disease and also supporting people and communities to be healthy.
What causes chronicity?
Disease can also be the underlying cause of chronic pain. Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia are well-known culprits, but persistent pain may also be due to such ailments as cancer, multiple sclerosis, stomach ulcers, AIDS, and gallbladder disease.
What percentage of Chronics are preventable?
In reality, the major causes of chronic diseases are known, and if these risk factors were eliminated, at least 80% of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes would be prevented; over 40% of cancer would be prevented.
What are the five main models of chronic disease self-management?
Five chronic disease models included Chronic Care Model (CCM), Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC), and Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions (ICCC), Stanford Model (SM) and Community based Transition Model (CBTM). CCM was the most studied model.
What is mortality vs morbidity?
Morbidity and mortality are two terms that often get confused. Morbidity refers to an illness or disease. Mortality refers to death. Both terms are often used in statistics.