Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice [Paperback]

Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice presents recent developments in chronic illness research and their implications for clinical practice. It delivers both a synthesis and a critique of current chronic illness research and its applications to chronic illness prevention, treatment and care. It promotes advances in knowledge about chronic illness, including discussion of the future directions for chronic illness research and gaps in present knowledge about effective chronic illness prevention, treatment and care.

Key features:

• Contains contributions from internationally renowned researchers in chronic illness
• Focuses on three key concepts, translating research into practice, chronic illness and practice, and bridges the boundaries between them
• Is applicable to an international, multi-disciplinary readership
• For researchers and practitioners across health disciplines

List of Contributors

Preface

1. Globalisation of Chronic Illness Research

Sally Wellard

Introduction

What is in a name?

Global crisis in chronic illness

Impact of chronic illness in developing nations

Trends in chronic illness research in developed nations

Policy drivers: taking action

Global initiatives for future chronic illness management

Conclusion

References

2. Transitional Processes and Chronic Illness

Debbie Kralik and Antonia van Loon

Introduction

The search

Defining transition

An emerging understandinglóÚ