Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions: Building Blocks for Action: Global Report

Due to public health successes, populations are ageing and increasingly patients are living with one or more chronic conditions for decades. Urbanization adoption of unhealthy lifestyles and the global marketing of health risks such as tobacco are other factors contributing to an increase. This places new long-term demands on health care systems. Yet, around the world health systems do not have a plan for managing chronic conditions and simply treat symptoms when they occur. The results of this poor organization are taxing to patients and families who must shoulder the burden of coordinating medical information and treatment across a lifetime. Health care workers who are typically ill equipped to effectively manage chronic conditions feel overwhelmed and ineffectual. Governments and health care systems are also facing an inability to cope with this escalating disease burden and increasing costs.

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