Chronicity : treating and coping

Chronicity : treating and coping / Dagmar Rinnenburger.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rinnenburger, Dagmar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
Chronic diseases > Treatment.
Quality of life.
Health promotion.
Human beings.
quality of life.
Homo sapiens (species)
Chronic diseases > Treatment
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Cronicità.
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.

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