Delivery and organization of diabetes care: integrated care

Integrated health care delivery

This book comprises an edited collection of research studies and conceptual essays on the topic of integrated care. There is no specific logic to the presentation of the material and the contents represent a highly varied and eclectic mix of subjects. Indeed, the contents have all the hallmarks of a set of conference papers that have been collated together without a huge amount of thought. As a...

Health care economics, financing, organization, and delivery.

BACKGROUND The US health care system is in a state of rapid evolution, with changing payment, organizational, and management structures. To learn how to function optimally in a system in which care is increasingly managed and competitive, today's medical students must understand the structural and economic underpinnings of the system within which they will practice. At the outset of the Undergr...

Ramadan Fasting and Diabetes Care

Health Care Reform—An Integrated Health Care Delivery System Perspective

Why the need for such a radical shift? Because in the past decade, employers’ health care costs have increased more than four times the inflation rate. The average U.S. household spends $15,300 a year for a family of four on health care. And, as a nation, we spend nearly 18 percent of the gross domestic product on health care. If we stay this course, the percentage of health care spending will ...

Care Dependency and Diabetes Self-Care Activities in Elderly Individuals with Diabetes

Introduction: Changing lifestyle, physical inactivity, and obesity lead to increased diabetes prevalence in the elderly. Diabetes management involves self-care activities, such as medical nutrition therapy, physical activity, use of pharmacologic agent, self-monitoring of blood glucose, foot care, and smoking cessation. Physiological, biological, mental changes that show up with aging and the p...