NURS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Patient Participation, Chronic Care, Chronic Condition
16 Dec 2017
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Stigma - assigning someone a label (usually not desirable, an attribute you"re assigning to a group, or occupation) Empowerment - process by which people exercise their ability to affect change to enhance control over their quality of life: patient empowerment - supporting patients to feel responsible for their own care, capable of their own care (ex. Giving health info they need to increase control over health) Chronic illness - a chronic condition is defined as persistent conditions that require ongoing health management (stamler, yiu, dosani, 2016) Chronicity - state of living with something chronic. Arthritis, diabetes, cv disease, dementia, crd, obesity, anxiety/mood disorders. More than one in five canadian adults have one of following chronic diseases: cvd, cancer, crd or diabetes. Canada ranks amongst the worst of oecd countries for adult obesity rates. https://www. canada. ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/how- healthy-canadians. html. Most common chronic illnesses in children and adolescents. Cancer: 15 new cases per 100000 children each year o leukemia (number 1 for children)
