Understanding Chronic Diseases and Management Approaches

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What are chronic conditions?

Chronic conditions describe a range of health conditions, including: Chronic conditions can often lead to your health gradually getting worse. They can lower your quality of life and affect your independence.

What are some common chronic diseases?

Common chronic diseases include diabetes, functional gastrointestinal disorder, eczema, arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, autoimmune diseases, genetic disorders and some viral diseases such as hepatitis C and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. An illness which is lifelong because it ends in death is a terminal illness.

What is a chronic or long-term illness?

A chronic or long-term illness means having to adjust to the demands of the illness and the therapy used to treat the condition. There may be additional stresses, since chronic illness might change the way you live, see yourself and relate to others. long latency periods (time between onset of the illness and feeling its effects)

What Is Chronic Diseases

1. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/health-conditions-disability-deaths/chronic-disease/overview
2. https://www.health.gov.au/topics/chronic-conditions/about-chronic-conditions
3. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/index.htm
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_condition
5. https://www.healthline.com/health/chronically-ill
6. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/management-of-chronic-conditions
7. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/noncommunicable-diseases

Chronic Diseases Information

1. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/chronic-illness
2. https://my.gov.au/en/services/health-and-disability/being-diagnosed-with-a-medical-condition-or-disability/managing-your-condition/managing-chronic-conditions