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Chronic disease management and prevention in the US
— the missing links in health care reform | | Author(s) | Kenneth E Thorpe |
| Journal title | Eurohealth, vol 15, no 1, 2009 |
| Publisher | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 5-7 |
| Source | http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealth eurohealth@lse.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Chronic illness ; Diseases ; Medical care ; Preventative medicine ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the United States (US), chronic diseases are among the most prevalent and costly health care problems, as well as the most preventable. This article examines chronic disease as the missing link in health care reform in the US; candidly discusses the particular impact chronic diseases and the lack of prevention have on quality of life, on escalating health care costs, and on the overall US economy; and recommends population health improvement programmes to reach and support citizens with chronic diseases in varied settings. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090904208 A |
| Classmark | CI: CJ: LK: LK2: TM2: 7T |
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