CHRONIC ILLNESS: PREVENTIVE MEASURES, TREATMENT AND OUTCOMES

Course overview

OBJECTIVES 1. Discuss the Costs of Chronic Disease, the cost effectiveness of prevention and the burden of chronic disease on minority racial populations/women. 2. Explain the Patient-Centered, Physician-Guided Model of Health Care 3. Discuss several chronic disease management programs - identify their methodologies and outcomes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Article #1 Chronic Disease Overview Article #2 Strategies for a Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free America Article #3 The Advanced Medical Home: A Patient-Centered, Physician-Guided Model of Health Care Article #4 A Cost Evaluation of the Georgia Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Program Article #5 Barriers to Diabetes Self-management Education Programs in Underserved Rural Arkansas: Implications for Program Evaluation Article #6 The Nutrition and Physical Activity Program to Prevent Obesity and Other Chronic Diseases: Monitoring Progress in Funded States Article #7 Collaboration Between Oregon's Chronic Disease Programs and Medicaid to Decrease Smoking Among Medicaid-Insured Oregonians With Asthma Article #8 The Behavioral and Clinical Effects of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change on Middle-aged Adults