NSE 21A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Human Experience, Chronic Condition, Medical Model
Document Summary
Health, illness, and disease: health and illness, exists along a continuum, nothing is absolute, heath: a state of physical, mental, and social well-being, disease: pathophysiological. Illness: the human experience and response to disease: how it"s live with. Integrated approach to chronic disease management and prevention: an integrated approach involves both individual and community risk factors, modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. Individual risk factors: background: sex, age, level of education, characteristics, behavioural: smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity. Intermediate (conditions: diabetes, hypertension, obesity: community level risk factors, social and economic conditions. Issues concerning chronic illness: comorbidity & multimorbidity, problematic care, complex care needs, failures in care provision. Illness behavior: self-efficacy, health-related hardiness, mood disorders, fatigue, stigma, quality of life, living with chronic illness. Therapeutic interventions: chronic diseases and illness: ongoing management. Integrated approach to chronic disease: holistic, comprehensive approaches, self-management programs, patient empowerment. Informal caregiver: anyone who provides care without pay and usually has personal ties to the care recipient: caregiver burden.
