Chronic Disease - Prevention & control
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Promoting wellness in women across the life span.

30 Aug 2009 For the purposes of this article, wellness is defined as an individual's subjective experience of overall life satisfaction in relation to physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, economic, occupational, and environmental dimensions. Women's ... Read more...

The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa.

22 Aug 2009 15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non-communicable, perinatal and maternal, and injury-related disorders. ... Read more...

Healthy living is the best revenge: findings from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Potsdam study.

8 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Our objective was to describe the reduction in relative risk of developing major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer associated with 4 healthy lifestyle factors among German adults. METHODS: We used data ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Chronic Disease - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Health and wealth in the Americas. 29 Oct 2009
• Nutrition in early life: a global priority. Oct 2009
• What can we learn from German health incentive schemes? 22 Sep 2009
• Non-communicable diseases and the Paris Declaration. 3 Sep 2009
• Medical home 2009: what it is, where we were, and where we are today. 30 Aug 2009
• Promoting wellness in women across the life span. 30 Aug 2009
• The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa. 22 Aug 2009
• It is time to include cancer and other noncommunicable diseases in the millennium development goals. 12 Aug 2009
• Structural interventions for addressing chronic health problems. 10 Aug 2009
• Life and death, knowledge and power: why knowing what matters is not what's the matter. 8 Aug 2009
• Healthy living is the best revenge: findings from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Potsdam study. 8 Aug 2009
• [The rhesus monkeys and the Fountain of Youth] 3 Aug 2009
• Disease prevention gains attention. 30 Jul 2009
• Health literacy and functional health status in Korean older adults. 30 Jul 2009
• The hidden toll of abuse. 30 Jul 2009
• Challenges of collaboration to address health disparities in the rapidly growing community of Las Vegas, Nevada. 30 Jul 2009
• Metabolites are key to understanding health effects of wine polyphenolics. 27 Jul 2009
• Public health action amid scientific uncertainty: the case of restaurant calorie labeling regulations. 20 Jul 2009
• Where are we now with indigenous health? 2 Jul 2009
• Journey into the unknown. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Chronic Disease'

Definition: Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D002908

Alternative terms: Chronic Disease; Chronic Diseases; Disease, Chronic; Diseases, Chronic; Chronic Illness; Chronic Illnesses; Illness, Chronic; Illnesses, Chronic; Chronically Ill;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug therapy; economics; ethnology; epidemiology; mortality; nursing; prevention & control; psychology; rehabilitation; therapy;

Tree Number: C23.550.291.500;

Technical Notes: IM GEN only; usually NIM with specific dis IM; no qualif when NIM; Manual 23.16+