Care of chronic conditions requires systemic reform
Partnership for Solutions
A Project of Johns Hopkins University
and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care"
December 2002
In the coming years, our health care system will devote increasing amounts of resources-both services and dollars-to care for people with chronic conditions. As a society, we need to ensure that these resources are spent as effectively and wisely as possible to maintain the health and enhance the individual functioning of this large segment of our population.
Care provided in the current system is not cost-effective and often leads to poor outcomes for patients with chronic conditions.
Providers, patients, and the public recognize that adjustments within the health care system are needed to improve chronic care in this country. In order to make these adjustments, health policymakers will need to reexamine how our current health care financing system values and pays for care received by people with chronic conditions, how we train health care providers to treat chronic conditions, and how the needs of people with chronic conditions are met.
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Comment:
From the Introduction:
This chartbook outlines the challenges the health care system continues to face in using its resources efficiently and effectively to provide access to high-quality, coordinated care and appropriate services that maintain health and functioning for people with chronic conditions.