Responding to the challenge of chronic diseases: lessons from England?
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چکیده
Perhaps the greatest challenge that will face health systems around the world this century will be how to develop effective responses to the growing burden of chronic diseases. Several interlinked factors come together to create this challenge. Many chronic diseases are a consequence, albeit not always inevitable, of the ageing process. However, unlike in past generations, for whom the onset of a disease such as diabetes could mean a rapid death, we now have the means to keep people alive but on treatment for their diseases.
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