Caring for People with Chronic Conditions [[electronic resource] ] : A Health System Perspective

• Autore: Nolte Ellen
• Pubblicazione: Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196044
• Soggetto topico: Chronically ill; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Policy; Disease Attributes; Patient Care Management; Social Control Policies; Health Care; Health Services Administration; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Policy; Social Control, Formal; Sociology; Diseases; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Social Sciences; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Health Policy; Delivery of Health Care; Chronic Disease; Public Health; Health & Biological Sciences; Public Health - General; Hospitals & Medical Centers
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: McKeeMartin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Contributors; Forewords; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Caring for people with chronic conditions: an introduction Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee; Chapter 2: The burden of chronic disease in Europe Joceline Pomerleau, Cécile Knai and Ellen Nolte; Chapter 3: Economic aspects of chronic disease and chronic disease management Marc Suhrcke, Daragh K. Fahey and Martin McKee; Chapter 4: Integration and chronic care: a review Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee ; Chapter 5: Preventing chronic disease: everybody's business Thomas E. NovotnyChapter 6: Supporting self-management Mieke Rijken, Martyn Jones, Monique Heijmans and Anna Dixon; Chapter 7: The human resource challenge in chronic care Carl-Ardy Dubois, Debbie Singh and Izzat Jiwani; Chapter 8: Decision support Nicholas Glasgow, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Elisabeth Chan and Dhigna Rubiano; Chapter 9: Paying for chronic disease care Reinhard Busse and Nicholas Mays; Chapter 10: Making it happen Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: The complex nature of many chronic diseases, which affect people many different ways, requires a multifaceted response that will meet the needs of the individual patient. Yet while everyone agrees that the traditional relationship between an individual patient and a single doctor is inappropriate, there is much less agreement about what should replace it. . . Many countries are now experimenting with new approaches to delivering care in ways that do meet the complex needs of people with chronic disorders, redesigning delivery systems to coordinate activities across the continuum of care. Yet w
• Titolo autorizzato: Caring for People with Chronic Conditions
• ISBN: 1-281-95320-2; 0-335-23690-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453866803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II