HLTHAGE 3N03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Disease Burden, Comorbidity, Insomnia
16 Dec 2018
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Implications for prognosis and treatment: prognosis isn"t as clear cut when experiencing two diseases at once. Multimorbidity: having 2 or more diseases, co-occurring (occurring at same time, difference is there is no indexed condition (one that is the main focus) Increases with age: common for people over 60 to have more than one disease/condition, by 65 most people have multimorbidity, onset is earlier with social deprivation, presence of mental health disorders increases with presence of physical disorders. Implications of comorbidity, and multimorbidity: high mortality, more multimorbidity, higher death rates, reduces functional status. Implications on daily function: disability status, more conditions = more caregiver burden, worse prognosis the more conditions you have, higher use of healthcare systems if have more conditions, higher economic costs. Depression comorbidity profile: 9-23% had 1 or more chronic physical conditions with comorbid depression, across countries and demographic characteristics, respondents with depression comorbid with one or more chronic diseases had the worst health scores.
