Contents
General introduction- Chronic illness in Australia and Worldwide
- The Socioeconomic Factors
- Role of Nurses
- Bibliography
Description
Chronic illness are generally the diseases which are for prolong or lifelong and recurrent. Usually the word Chronic denotes the course of disease or its rate of onset with its progressive development. It is different from the acute, which has rapid onset but for shorter duration. Generally the Acute condition is the primary phase which can be exaggerated to formed as chronic in near future if not well cured at time. So the Chronic condition comes into existence for various diseases like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Renal failure, several autoimmune diseases, chronic osteoarticular diseases etc.Generally various chronic diseases require chronic care management for effective long term treatment and sometimes for lifelong.
