Chronic Disease Management - A New Paradigm for Care

Informationen zum Autor Patrick McEvoy Zusammenfassung In this ground-breaking new work, Patrick J McEvoy connects with healthcare professionals, patients and illness to present an entirely new way to address chronic disease management. By reflecting on the very nature of chronic disease, rather than focusing on its consequences, Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: chronic disease, its natural history and ecology 1. Chronic disease: what’s so special about it? 2. The story of chronic disease (the disease complex) 3. The journey through chronic disease (the patient complex) 4. Care of the chronic sick: the community complex 5. The clinical complex: the general practitioner and chronic care 6. A chronic care revolution: service redesign and the policy complex 7. The learning and teaching complex through the chronic disease paradigm 8. Meeting the challenges of chronic care

Product details

• Authors: Paddy McEvoy, Patrick Mcevoy, McEvoy Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2014
• EAN: 9781908911568
• ISBN: 978-1-908911-56-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / General, Endocrinology, MEDICAL / Endocrinology & Metabolism, MEDICAL / Family & General Practice, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine