Chronic Illness: Models of Care, Australian Health Priorities, and Impacts

Chronic Illness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
World Health Organisation (WHO) and Models of Chronic Disease.........................................3
Australian health priorities for chronic disease...........................................................................4
Continuum of chronic disease.....................................................................................................6
Life variables that have an impact on health and well-being......................................................7
Impacts of chronic disease...........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Chronic illness can be defined as any illness or disease that last 1 year and more and
require ongoing medical attention and is also likely to limit daily activities for patient. Heart
disease, cancer and diabetes are few examples of chronic disease Dowaidar, M. (2021). This
study will discuss about WHO and other models of chronic disease, Australian health priority for
chronic disease, continuum of chronic disease and life variables having impact on chronic
disease will also be discussed in report. Chronic disease that have impact on lives of people all
around the world and among those who die from chronic disease four out of five are from low
and middle income countries. Chronic health condition being considered for this assessment is
cancer.
MAIN BODY
World Health Organisation (WHO) and Models of Chronic Disease
There are several models for care that enables to effectively deal with chronic disease and
these models include WHO Model of care, Stanford Model of Chronic Health Disorders,
Flinders Model of Chronic Health Disorders and Chronic Care Model (CCM). Challenges of
healthcare care system of Australia involves-
 Demographic changes and increasing ageing population
 Cost of technology for healthcare system
 Public and private funding for healthcare
 Equity issues and issues related to health inequality
WHO model of Care also known as Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Framework
The Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Framework (ICCC) framework is comprised
of micro, meso, and macro factors. Micro factors involve patient, meso factor involves
healthcare organisation and community and macro factors include policies. These three
components are known as building blocks that can be used for creating healthcare system
capable of managing cancer effectively. This model connects three essential elements involved
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