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What is Chronic Patient

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Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
Patient suffering from a disease that persists for a long time. Usually, they defined chronic disease as one lasting three months or more, but it’s very often they drag on for many years and treatment be able to control them, but not cure them. There are a lot of people living with chronic diseases and frequently they have two o more of them. We can use different terms as polipathology, pluripathology, pluri-pathology, comorbidity, multiple chronic diseases or complex chronic disease for this kind of patients.
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Social Networks as a Tool to Improve the Life Quality of Chronic Patients and Their Relatives
Miguel Guinalíu (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Javier Marta (Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Spain), and José María Subero (Aragón Government, Spain)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch009
Abstract
The evolution of society has modified the medical needs of the population from social and economic criteria. Social networks can partially help these new medical demands contributing to improve the life quality of chronic patients and their relatives through the modification of the ways of communication and interaction. In order to analyze the real value of social networks in this chapter the authors study a real case. This analysis allows them to identify the benefits that social networks can provide to chronic patients, as well as the barriers that must be considered to implement them as health service tools.
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