| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction: chronic disease, its natural history and ecology -- chapter 1 Chronic disease: what's so special about it? -- chapter 2 The story of chronic disease (the disease complex) -- chapter 3 The journey through chronic disease (the patient complex) -- chapter 4 Care of the chronic sick: the community complex -- chapter 5 The clinical complex: the general practitioner and chronic care -- chapter 6 A chronic care revolution: service redesign and the policy complex -- chapter 7 The learning and teaching complex through the chronic disease paradigm -- chapter 8 Meeting the challenges of chronic care |
| Summary |
In this ground-breaking new work, Patrick J McEvoy connects with healthcare professionals, patients and illness to presenting an entirely new way to address chronic disease management. By reflecting on the very nature of chronic disease, rather than focusing on its consequences, the book sheds new light on the complex realities of general practice, explaining the intricacies of community medicine, and its relationship with both sociology and epidemiology. Highly practical in its approach, the book offers a generic paradigm of chronic disease, a trajectory-based model of clinical management and a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chronic Disease -- therapy
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Chronic diseases -- Treatment
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Chronic diseases -- Great Britain
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Chronic diseases.
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Health and Wellbeing
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Chronic Disease
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Chronic diseases.
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Chronic diseases -- Treatment.
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781910227053 |
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1910227056 |
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9781910227046 |
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1910227048 |
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