Main description:

The second edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive overview to chronic illness care, which is the coordinated, comprehensive and sustained response to chronic diseases and conditions by health care providers, formal and informal caregivers, healthcare systems, and community-based resources. This unique resource uses an ecological framework to frame chronic illness care at multiple levels, and includes sections on individual influences, the role of family and community networks, social and environmental determinants, and health policy. The book also orients how chronic care is provided across the spectrum of health care settings, from home to clinic, from the emergency department to the hospital and from hospitals to residential care facilities.

The fully revised and expanded edition of Chronic Illness Care describes the operational frameworks and strategies that are needed to meet the care needs of chronically ill patients, including behavioral health, care management, transitions of care, and health information technology. It also addresses the changing workforce needs in health care and the fiscal models and policies that are associated with chronic care.

Several new chapters are included in the second edition and reflect the significant changes that have occurred in health care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters covering vaccinations, virtual care, and care of COVID-19 associated chronic conditions have been added. The revised textbook builds on the first edition's content that covered providing care to special population groups, such as children and adolescents, older adults, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, by including care approaches to adults with severe and persistent mental health disorders, the LGBTQ+ community, incarcerated persons, immigrants and refugees, and military veterans. Finally, chapters on important and emerging topics, such as natural language processing and health inequities and structural racism have also been added.

Contents:

1. Genetic Contributions and Personalized Medicine

2. Diet and Weight Management

3. Promoting Physical Activity

4. Tobacco Use and Dependence

5. Chronic Disease Self-Management

6. Substance Use Disorders

7. Family and Other Caregivers

8. Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Neglect

9. Patient Navigators and Peer Support

10. Government Agencies and Community Organizers

11. Screening and Secondary Prevention

12. Vaccines and Immunization

13. Medication Management and Treatment Adherence

14. Patient-Provider Communication and Interactions

15. Principles of Ambulatory and Urgent Care

16. Principles of Virtual Care

17. Principles of Emergency Care

18. Acute Hospital Care

19. Long-Term Care

20. Community Based Care

21. End-of-Life Care

22. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

23. Special Populations: Children and Adolescents

24. Special Populations: Older Adults

25. Special Populations: Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

26. Special Populations: Adults with Severe and Persistent Mental Health Disorders

27. Special Populations: LGBTQ Community

28. Special Populations: Care of Incarcerated Persons

29. Special Populations: Care of Immigrants and Refugees

30. Special Populations: COVID-19 Associated Chronic Conditions

31. Special Populations: Care of Military Veterans

32. Integrated Behavioral Health Care

33. Transitions of Care

34. Population Health

35. Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

36. Health Information Technology

37. Quality Improvement

38. Quality of Life and Patient Outcomes

39. Environmental Determinants of Health

40. Social Determinants of Health

41. Health Inequities and Structural Racism

42. Medicare

43. Medicaid

44. Alternative Payment Models and Value Based Care

45. Health Care Workforce