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The Institute of Medicine's Committee on Living Well with Chronic Disease: Public Health Action to Reduce Disability and Improve Functioning and Quality of Life presents this report, which examines and makes recommendations for the role of public health services in the prevention, initial treatment, and long-term follow-up of chronic disease, reducing the incidence of complications, and diminishing the severity of illness. It details the economic consequences of chronic illness for individuals, their families, the health care system, and the US; an approach to understanding prevention; and the populations that experience these illnesses disproportionately. Also discussed are chronic diseases and their clinical stages, their patterns and course, and the common or cross-cutting burden and consequences of living with them; how to improve surveillance systems to better assess and address them; and the roles of public health and community-based interventions for management and control, federal policy in enhancing control, and aligning public health, health care systems, and non-health care community services to better control chronic illnesses. It does not recommend a specific set of diseases for focus, and instead describes nine sets of diseases (from cancer to diabetes to depression) that have key implications for the nation's health and economy, impact quality of life and functional status, complicate or increase risks for multiple conditions, and impact the community, families, and caregivers. There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"In the United States, chronic diseases currently account for 70 percent of all deaths, and close to 48 million Americans report a disability related to a chronic condition. Today, about one in four Americans have multiple diseases and the prevalence andburden of chronic disease in the elderly and racial/ethnic minorities are notably disproportionate. Chronic disease has now emerged as a major public health problem and it threatens not only population health, but our social and economic welfare. Living well with chronic disease identifies the population-based public health actions that can help reduce disability and improve functioning and quality of life among individuals who are at risk of developing a chronic disease and those with one or more diseases. The book recommends that all major federally funded programmatic and research initiatives in health include an evaluation on health-related quality of life and functional status. Also, the book recommends increasing support for implementation researchon how to disseminate effective longterm lifestyle interventions in community-based settings that improve living well with chronic disease. Living well with chronic disease uses three frameworks and considers diseases such as heart disease and stroke, diabetes, depression, and respiratory problems. The book's recommendations will inform policy makers concerned with health reform in public- and private-sectors and also managers of community-based and public-health intervention programs, private and publicresearch funders, and patients living with one or more chronic conditions"--Publisher's description.
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