| Chronic Diseases in the Year 2005: Scenarios on Chronic Non-Specific Lung Diseases 1990-2005 Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Chronic Diseases Scenario Committee (Author), Casparie, A. F. (Other), Verkleij, H. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0792323548 ISBN-13: 9780792323549 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1993 Annotation: The Report Scenarios on Chronic Non-Specific Lung Diseases 1990--2005 (CNSLD) is the second specialized report of the Chronic Diseases Scenario Project. The report examines the way in which the number of patients, the number and severity of exacerbations and complications, the quality of life and the demand for health care due to CNSLD will develop up to the year 2005. The report begins with a description of the present scale of the problem and developmens in the recent past. A summary of experts' ideas about the future precedes a description of various kinds of future health scenarios. The report concludes by identifying priority areas for government policy. CNSLD is a growing problem. Key questions accordingly consist of the need for an expansion in health care and health care reforms and the prospects for preventing the disease itself, and its exacerbations and complications. The report is therefore of interest to all parties involved in the care of CNSLD patients. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Epidemiology - Medical | Administration - Medical | Internal Medicine |
| Dewey: 614.424 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Future Health Scenarios |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.72" W x 9.24" (1.03 lbs) 245 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Aims and approach In order to chart the way for long-tenn policies in the field of public health, the Dutch government needs to have the best possible insight into potential future trends and the problems to which these could give rise. It was with a view to compiling a number of long-range studies that the independent Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios was set up in 1983. In 1988 this body appointed a board of experts to sUivey the future of Chronic Diseases. Three chronic diseases have been selected: diabetes mellitus, CNSLD (chronic non-specific lung disease) and rheumatoid arthritis (a chronic disorder of the joints). In close consultation with this board, the study has been conducted by the Department of Epidemiology of the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection in Bilthoven. This report contains the results of the research into CNSLD. The report on diabetes mellitus was published in March 1990, while that on rheumatoid arthritis followed shortly (1991). The series has been concluded with a fmal report (spring 1992), in which, among other things, the results of the three reports have been brought together with a view to arriving at an overall picture of chronic diseases. The research had two main objectives: 1. |