Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Strategic Framework: Optimum Health and Quality of Life with Multiple Chronic Conditions

摘要

The vision that drives the department's efforts is Optimum Health and Quality of Life for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Conditions. Within the vision's focus on the individual with MCC, development of the framework elucidated four interdependent domains that benefit the individual: strengthening the health care and public health systems; empowering the individual to use self-care management; equipping care providers with tools, information, and other interventions; and supporting targeted research about individuals with MCC and effective interventions. Accordingly, to achieve its vision, this framework comprises these four overarching goals: (1) Foster health care and public health system changes to improve the health of individuals with multiple chronic conditions; (2) Maximize the use of proven self-care management and other services by individuals with multiple chronic conditions; (3) Provide better tools and information to health care, public health, and social services workers who deliver care to individuals with multiple chronic conditions, and (4) Facilitate research to fill knowledge gaps about, and interventions and systems to benefit, individuals with multiple chronic conditions.