Chronicity Treating and coping
This book comprehensively and critically discusses chronicity as a crucial challenge for the future of medicine in an era of aging populations and the steady growth of non-communicable comorbidities. It describes how health systems that are still designed and based on the treatment of acute diseases...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Stories from a world where everyone can enter, and where many already reside
- Chronic / Acute: two opposite scenarios?
- The burden on chronicity
- The strain of being chronically ill
- The strain of treating chronic patients
- How to treat the sick and, above all, where?
- The rainbow of places of care disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic
- The epidemiological shift from acute to chronic in India
- Asthma can be lethal (but it is also possible to live with it)
- Education as therapy: a history of failure?
- Primary care, incremental care and initiative anticipatory healthcare
- Chronic meets chronic (when doctors are dangerous)
- Chronic seeks chronic: the opportunities of Web 2.0
- The decline of chronic illness towards the end of life
- If chronic illness works with palliative care
- In the spotlight or behind the scenes?
- In conclusion.