Despite the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and multimorbidities, the essential
attributes of the structure and delivery of primary care continue to be defined in terms of …

Over a hundred years ago, acute communicable diseases–tuberculosis, diphtheria, and
influenza–were the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States, greatly …

Abstract Background The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is widely taken up as the universal
operational framework for redesigning health systems to address the increasing chronic …

Chronic illness Chronic illness refers to the lived experience of long-term bodily or health
disturbance, 5 whether related to a communicable or non-communicable disease, condition …

HE USE OF individually focused frameworks by health care professionals to discuss chronic
illness problems and behaviors poses major difficulties for both professionals and receivers …

Chronic diseases place a substantial burden on the health of affected individuals as well as
on society. More than 90 million people in the United States are living with chronic diseases …

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logo Delivering better chronic disease care is a team sport that requires a clear game plan …

To address inadequacies in the management of chronic illness, the chronic care model
(CCM) was developed to transform primary care practices so that they could initiate and …

The chronic care model is a guide to higher-quality chronic illness management within
primary care. The model predicts that improvement in its 6 interrelated components—self …

This dissertation chronicles the complexity of chronic illness experience in a western
biomedically-oriented health care system. It combines an exhaustive description of what it is …