Health reform : meeting the challenge of ageing and multiple morbidities.

Description

Increasingly, developed countries are finding that their biggest challenge is dealing with people who do not just have one chronic disease; they have several. They have "multiple morbidities", and health systems must change to address the health needs of such people. This volume contains six background chapters that were prepared for the OECD and the Business Industry Advisory Committee conference on these issues. The latest disease burden challenge: people with multiple chronic conditions / Gerard Anderson -- Ageing, health and innovation: policy reform to facilitate healthy and active ageing in OECD countries / Rebecca Taylor -- The challenge of financing care for individuals with multimorbidities / Geoff Anderson -- Reconfiguring health professions in time of multimorbidity: eight recommendations for change / Thomas Plochg, Niek Klazinga, Michael Schoenstein, and Barbara Starfield -- Health sector innovation and partnership / Richard B, Saltman, Johan Calltorp, and Aad A. de Roo -- Multimorbidity: the impact on health systems and their development / Bruce Guthrie, Sally Wyke, Jane Gunn, Marjan van den Akker and Stewart Mercer.