Chronic disease management - Glossary (2024)

FAQs

What are the 27 chronic conditions? ›

In optimising the consultation, five C's need attention: control, compliance, complications, counseling/concerns, and customization. Patients with chronic conditions must become the principal caregiver themselves looking after their diet, exercise, lifestyle modification, medication use, and self monitoring.

If you have a chronic condition, you can manage it by: making regular visits to your general practitioner or specialist. having a healthy lifestyle, including eating well, exercising and getting enough sleep. taking your prescribed medicines.

Chronic diseases - such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and arthritis - are the leading causes of disability and death in New York State and throughout the United States.

Number 1: Hypertension (high blood pressure)

The danger of hypertension is not only that you can have it for years and not know it, but it can cause other serious health conditions, like stroke and heart attacks. Steps you can take to prevent or reduce high blood pressure: Maintaina healthy weight.

We used the 10 most prevalent and costly chronic diseases in the US (21): obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, cancer (excluding skin cancer), and depression.

Five key health-related behaviors for chronic disease prevention are never smoking, getting regular physical activity, consuming no alcohol or only moderate amounts, maintaining a normal body weight, and obtaining daily sufficient sleep.

A disease or condition that usually lasts for 3 months or longer and may get worse over time. Chronic diseases tend to occur in older adults and can usually be controlled but not cured. The most common types of chronic disease are cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and arthritis.

How to get a chronic disease management plan? ›

It is up to a GP to determine whether you are eligible for these allied health services which must be directly related to the management of your chronic condition. The practice nurse can provide support and monitoring between visits to your GP. Your GP will offer you a copy of your plan.

The CDSMP focuses on issues common to people with a variety of health conditions. Participants develop skills through action planning and feedback, behavior modeling, problem solving techniques, and decision making.

According to a very broad classification, diseases can also be classified under the following – physical diseases, mental diseases, infectious diseases, non- infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, inherited diseases, degenerative diseases, social diseases, self-inflicted diseases.

CDC works to prevent chronic diseases and their risk factors through four domains: epi- demiology and surveillance, environmental approaches, health care system interventions, and community-clinical links. Epidemiology and surveillance refers to systems that are used to track chronic diseases and their risk factors.

The 10 conditions are arthritis, asthma, back problems, cancer, chronic kidney disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes, mental and behavioural conditions, osteoporosis or osteopenia, and selected heart, stroke and vascular diseases (based on underlying or associated causes of death).

Chronic diseases—also known as noncommunicable diseases—generally progress slowly over a long time. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the “big 5” chronic diseases are diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases, cancer, and stroke [1].