The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and
services integration. The volume is divided into three sections.
The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care
providers. The second section contains papers that deal with home
and community based services for the elderly and those who need
chronic care. The third section provides lessons from countries
outside the United States related to the overall themes of chronic
care, systems integration and services integration.
These are themes of growing importance in the US health care
system as well as in health care systems in most other developed
nations. The aging of populations, already underway, and expected
to increase in the coming decades will bring changes and challenges
to the health care system. Many of these challenges relate to
chronic care needs, since chronic care needs are more important in
the elderly than in other population groups, although chronic care
problems are not limited to the elderly. Once people reach their
40s and 50s, they begin to develop chronic problems. Chronic
problems often require both more health care services and more
complicated health care services, and thus place an emphasis on
services integration.
General
Imprint: |
JAI Press Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Research in the Sociology of Health Care |
Release date: |
November 2004 |
First published: |
2004 |
Editors: |
Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
300 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7623-1147-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Health systems & services >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7623-1147-9 |
Barcode: |
9780762311477 |
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