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The patient centered medical homes (“PCMH”) approach “focuses on keeping people well, managing chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma, and proactively meeting the needs of patients.” According to the Arkansas Department of Health, chronic diseases like cancer heart disease or diabetes affect approximately over fifty percent of adult Arkansans. Yet chronic diseases are often preventable. The high rate of chronic diseases can partly be attributed health insurance coverage—“when people don’t have health insurance they tend to avoid seeing doctors. People

This is true for insured, uninsured, and under-insured Americans. These problems are exacerbated by a lack of coordination of care for patients with chronic diseases. The underlying

“Health is like money,” humorist Josh Billings once said. “We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” Though Billings did not live to see the twenty-first century, his musings are still relevant to adults and young children alike today. Yet the question remains for many Americans and other people worldwide: how may we maintain our health? The answer is quite simple: remember that what you eat, think, and do now will affect the life of your future self. I have realized this truth and am on the road to a healthy lifestyle through being mentally, physically, and internally healthy. Here is how.

Chronic disease is a burden for the healthcare authorities in U.S. due to the rising cost. Surely, the debilitating costly effects of chronic conditions is preventable. The economic effects of chronic disease extend beyond the cost of health care, evidence-based practice shows that disease prevention starting to all the people who are at risk of developing any chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, respiratory diseases, arthritis, obesity, and oral diseases should be a priority for the healthcare authorities. To reduce cost and health disparities, there are certain measures that should be taking by the healthcare authorities. For example, access to a local comprehensive and quality health services is

Background of the policy: Chronic diseases are becoming the leading cause of deaths and disabilities in the United States. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 117 millions of US adults suffer from chronic diseases such as obesity, heart

One-fourth of American citizens have 2 or extra chronic disease, and this population accounts for greater than half of of overall healthcare costs (Giovannetti, Dy, Leff, Weston, Adams, Valuck, … Boyd, 2013). Having multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) can negatively affect quality of life, ability to work, disability, and mortality. No matter the high incidence of MCCs and corresponding terrible results, the care for individuals with MCCs is often fragmented, incomplete, inefficient, and useless, resulting in doubtlessly avoidable inpatient admissions, negative consequences of therapeutic interactions, and postoperative complications (Giovannetti, et al., 2013). A Strategic Framework for improving health outcomes and quality of life developed

Chronic disease is an issue that affects multiple American families no matter their race, religion or gender. It can accrue in the youngest member of the family to the oldest with little to no warning signs. Even the treatments for chronic diseases can be costly ranging upwards to thousands of dollars with little to no results in the long term. Although chronic diseases can be expensive once diagnosed there are ways to lower the chance of contracting a disease as well as types of interventions that are used by public health specialist to prevent the diseases.

Chronic diseases are one of the health problems that affect quality of life, and increased morbidity, mortality and costs of healthcare in the world. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are seven of ten deaths cases each year due to chronic diseases and treating people with chronic diseases accounts for 86% of the United States of America (U.S) nation’s health care costs (Asthma Facts: CDC’s National Asthma Control Program Grantees, 2013). Therefore, the U.S has placed objectives, goals, and programs in order to reduce the burden of chronic diseases and other health issues on healthcare system, and in order to improve people’s health. In December 2010, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared the nation’s new health promotion and disease prevention agenda, which is

By switching to a chronic care model it provides beneficial self-management education (Alt & Schatell, 2008). Many times when treating an acute illness, the provider’s role is to give medications and cure the illness. This is different for a chronic disease because often treatment for a lifelong illness requires a variety of methods to be successful. > For treatment to be effective while caring for a patient with a chronic disease, it is also essential to build a patient-provider relationship. If the provider understands what tools they need to give to their patient to control their own illness there will be better health outcomes altogether. By shifting to the Chronic Care Model providers will be able to care for their patients with chronic diseases more effectively. The United States health care will be able to see better life expectancies and outcomes for those dealing with chronic

Chronic disease is defined as any non-life threatening medical affliction that persists over a long period of time with typically slow progression and frequent reoccurrence. These conditions, (which are influenced by the patient’s socioeconomic status, level of education, employment and living conditions), include, but are not limited to; diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, arthritis, obesity, and cancer. According to the Center for Disease Control, chronic diseases are the number one cause of death in the United States where one in four Americans are living with multiple chronic disease diagnoses, which increases to three in four Americans when the demographic is aged 65 and older. The role of the primary care/family medicine physician is crucial in managing (and preventing) patients’ chronic illness as they are able to develop a long term personal relationship with the patient and

Chronic diseases are common causes of worldwide morbidity, disability and mortality for more than last two decades. According to the WHO, chronic diseases account for 60% of the total worldwide deaths and about 75% of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries (WHO Non-communicable diseases, 2015; Alwan et al., 2011). It has been estimated that, by 2020, chronic disease number is going to increase to 75% of all deaths worldwide; and 71% of deaths will occur due to Ischemic heart diseases, 75% due to stroke, and 70% due to diabetes in developing countries. (WHO | The global burden of chronic.). In the United States, Chronic diseases alone contributes to 70% of total deaths and 86% of total health care cost burden (CDC Chronic Diseases.,

As a physician in the future, I hope to educate and train competent physicians of the highest ideals in the ways of prevention, diagnoses and treatment. The statement “prevention is better than cure” goes without saying. By promoting healthy eating habits and lifestyle changes, we can decrease the incidences of cardiovascular diseases and Diabetes. According to dailymail.com, The US has the highest rate of diabetes among all developed countries across the world~ 30 million people. The incidence of Type II diabetes can be decreased by decreasing fast food intake and sedentary lifestyle. Approximately 50 million Americans eat out every day with an estimated $1,200 spent on fast food each year. If we funded educational preventative programs that taught people on healthy habits, then we could decrease the incidences of diabetes, Heart attack, stroke. We could also decrease the amount of money being paid out by Medicaid and Medicare yearly as we funnel that money into other programs. This would in turn lead to a decrease in incidences, hospitalizations and mortality rates.

An immense social problem in the United States is obesity. Children are weighing more than they are supposed to, according to their age and height. Being drastically overweight can increase the chances of acquiring many diseases. Diseases like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and many more. One thing most people do not know is that these diseases are preventable. Moreover, possible causes of this problem is lack of exercise, lack of knowledge and lack of motivation. Parents are to blame as well, nowadays it is much easier to simply buy fast food instead of buying groceries and cooking at home. They lack the motivation to cook healthier meals at home, instead they are seen at the drive through window. Lack of knowledge is another

Throughout the past century the world has seen a drastic shift in not only life expectancy but in quality of life. Medicine has become incredibly advanced and thus life expectancy rates have increased over the years. However, it must also be recognized that there are now higher rates of chronic illness. Chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease are the leading causes of disability throughout the United States. “As of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—had one or more chronic health conditions” (CDC 2016). People with a chronic illness essentially have a disease or disorder that requires a lifetime of coping. It is not uncommon for people to often become so ill that they are unable to work.

In 2014, a study was published to determine the effectiveness of a prevention program that would reduce the risk of chronic diseases. As stated in the study, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “one out of 10 Americans” is living with a form of chronic illness. These chronic diseases are a result of modifiable health risk behaviors such as sedentary lifestyle, malnutrition, alcoholism, and use of tobacco. If these risk factors were transformed into healthy behaviors, it would eliminate “ at least 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type-2 diabetes” and “40% of all cancer” which are the leading causes of death in the United States.