Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8209-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Gerontology

Chronic conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, and Parkinson disease are the principal cause of all sickness and death in the United States and represent the vast majority of health care expenditures. Although we now live in a world dominated by chronic conditions, health care is still organized around a commitment to treating acute illnesses.

Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness examines current deficiencies in chronic illness care and explores ways to improve it. Addressing the challenges of shifting from the primacy of acute illnesses to the predominance of chronic conditions, the authors identify the components necessary to reorganize and reform health care: properly prepared health care workers; involved patients and families; appropriate use of new technologies, especially information systems; an appropriate role for prevention; and the creation of funding approaches that will provide necessary incentives.

This book calls on policy makers, health care providers, and educators to address one of the greatest challenges facing the health care system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kane, Robert L

Priester, Reinhard

Totten, Annette M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wagner, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Edward Wagner, M.D., M.P.H.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Caring For People With Chronic Illness
1. What's So special about Chronic Illness Care?
2. The Minensions of Chrpnic Illness
3. How the Current System Fails People with Chronic Illness
Part II. Opportunities for Changes
4. Reorganizing care in the Face of Chronic illness
5. The Right Health Care Workers with the Right Skills
6. Patients and Families
7. Innovative Technology
8. Prevention
9. Paying for Chronic Care
Part III. Prospects for Change
10. The Context for Reform
11. Next Steps
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Notes
References
Index

Leseproben

"This book views the issues from the perspectives of the patients and families and of professional caregivers and policy makers. Unlike many discussions of chronic illness care, it considers the entire spectrum of chronic illness, from fully functional individuals trying to control their illness and prevent complications to frail, older people in need of ongoing services. We have needed a thoughtful, comprehensive examination of the evidence and issues in caring for individuals and families with chronic illness. Now we have one."—from the foreword by Edward Wagner, M.D., M.P.H., Director, MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Seattle, Washington

Über Autor(innen)

Totten, Annette M
Annette M. Totten, Ph.D. is director of the Center for the Study of Aging at Boise State University.

Priester, Reinhard
Reinhard Priester, J.D., is a coordinator in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Kane, Robert L
Robert L. Kane, M.D., is a professor and the Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Robert L. Kane, M.D., is a professor and the Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Reinhard Priester, J.D., is a coordinator in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Annette M. Totten, Ph.D. is director of the Center for the Study of Aging at Boise State University.