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Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management
Globally, nations are confronted with the challenge of providing affordable health services to populations with increasing levels of noncommunicable and chronic disease. Paradoxically, many nations can both celebrate increases in life expectancy and bemoan parallel increases in chronic disease preva...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473294 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S72636 |
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author | Brownie, Sharon Hills, Andrew P Rossiter, Rachel |
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description | Globally, nations are confronted with the challenge of providing affordable health services to populations with increasing levels of noncommunicable and chronic disease. Paradoxically, many nations can both celebrate increases in life expectancy and bemoan parallel increases in chronic disease prevalence. Simply put, despite living longer, not all of that time is spent in good health. Combined with factors such as rising levels of obesity and related noncommunicable disease, the demand for health services is requiring nations to consider new models of affordable health care. Given the level of disease burden, all staff, not just doctors, need to be part of the solution and encouraged to innovate and deliver better and more affordable health care, particularly preventative primary health care services. This paper draws attention to a range of exemplars to encourage and stimulate readers to think beyond traditional models of primary health service delivery. Examples include nurse-led, allied health-led, and student-led clinics; student-assisted services; and community empowerment models. These are reported for the interest of policy makers and health service managers involved in preventative and primary health service redesign initiatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-42471422014-12-03 Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management Brownie, Sharon Hills, Andrew P Rossiter, Rachel J Multidiscip Healthc Perspectives Globally, nations are confronted with the challenge of providing affordable health services to populations with increasing levels of noncommunicable and chronic disease. Paradoxically, many nations can both celebrate increases in life expectancy and bemoan parallel increases in chronic disease prevalence. Simply put, despite living longer, not all of that time is spent in good health. Combined with factors such as rising levels of obesity and related noncommunicable disease, the demand for health services is requiring nations to consider new models of affordable health care. Given the level of disease burden, all staff, not just doctors, need to be part of the solution and encouraged to innovate and deliver better and more affordable health care, particularly preventative primary health care services. This paper draws attention to a range of exemplars to encourage and stimulate readers to think beyond traditional models of primary health service delivery. Examples include nurse-led, allied health-led, and student-led clinics; student-assisted services; and community empowerment models. These are reported for the interest of policy makers and health service managers involved in preventative and primary health service redesign initiatives. Dove Medical Press 2014-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4247142/ /pubmed/25473294 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S72636 Text en © 2014 Brownie et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Perspectives Brownie, Sharon Hills, Andrew P Rossiter, Rachel Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title | Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title_full | Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title_fullStr | Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title_full_unstemmed | Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title_short | Public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
title_sort | public health service options for affordable and accessible noncommunicable disease and related chronic disease prevention and management |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473294 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S72636 |
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