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Health Services for Cancer Survivors - Practice, Policy and Research (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Health Services for Cancer Survivors - Practice, Policy and Research (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Health has been conceptualized by world and national health
organizations (WHO, CDC, Healthy People 2010) as more than the
absence of disease. It involves a focus on physical, psychosocial,
and functional aspects of life as well as the prevention of future
illnesses. At this point in the development of quality health care
for cancer survivors, there is sufficient knowledge and expert
opinion to push efforts forward to improve the health of cancer
survivors. Clearly there is more research in the most prevalent
forms of cancers (e.g., breast cancer) than others that provide us
with guidance on how to optimize their health, but there are data
on other forms of cancers that can also better inform practice.
There may also be general care practices that can cut across cancer
types. There has been an emergence of epidemiological and clinical
research in cancer survivors that can form the basis for a
revolution in the quality and nature of health care that survivors
receive. This book not only provides the reader with diverse
perspectives and data but also integrates this information so it
can serve as the foundation necessary to improve and maintain the
health of cancer survivors. Reporting of symptoms to health care
providers is a complex, multi-determined problem influenced not
only by the pathophysiology but also, as we have learned over the
years through pain research, by societal, cultural, and
biobehavioral factors. This book will consider this important
aspect of follow-up for millions of cancer survivors because of the
strong reliance on symptom reporting for clinical decision making.
In order for us to generate meaningful and effective treatment, we
need to better understand the symptom experience in cancer
survivors. This book provides much information that will assist us
to better understand and manage this complicated end point. The
presenting problems need to be articulated and "conceptualized" as
clearly as possible by both parties so appropriate actions can be
taken. Since health care costs are a major concern for patients,
payers, and providers, this area will also be addressed in all the
relevant sections. In taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this
book illustrates the importance of a team approach to the
improvement of health care and associated health, well-being, and
functioning in cancer survivors. The 17 chapters cover critical
topics of which physicians and providers of all types must be aware
in order to provide the most comprehensive and responsive care for
cancer survivors. All of the clinical care chapters include case
studies to illustrate the real-world application of these
approaches in cancer survivors. Information about sources of
referral both within and outside the traditional health care
communities will be provided in tabular form. There is no other
text that provides both an overview of the problems and their
challenges, case illustrations of direct application, and the
reality of reimbursement for such care. The editors hope that there
may be no need for the clinician or the survivor to adapt to a "new
normal" if the presenting problems are understood and handled from
an interdisciplinary perspective as outlined here.
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