Healthcare Services for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 April 2023) | Viewed by 1820
Special Issue Editors
Interests: value-based health care; alternative payment models; integrated care; health service operations management
Interests: health service operations management; alternative payment models; aptake of big data and AI
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How to manage or even prevent chronic diseases is a question that occupies scholars’, practitioners’, and policy-makers’ minds alike. Various academic professions—such as behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, and operations management scholars, to name a few—dwell on such questions related to intervention design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention initiatives and disease management strategies. While the widespread involvement of various research communities in prevention and disease management speaks to the relevance of the topic, there is a risk of fragmentation and knowledge being built within different communities but rarely transferring between them. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks papers fostering scholarly exchange between communities, combining insights from different disciplines and contributing to improved prevention and disease management decision making for chronic diseases. Following Bernell and Howard (2016), we consider chronic diseases in a broader sense as symptoms, conditions, and diseases that are ongoing or recurring.
We welcome multidisciplinary research focusing on aspects related to intervention design (including patient activation and self-management support, redesign of care pathways, and eHealth initiatives), implementation strategies (including scaling-up and sustaining efforts), and evaluation studies. The latter should report on how value-driven initiatives result in improved health outcomes at a lower cost (or fail to do so). Research can be empirical or analytical, and should rigorously apply state-of-the-art methods. We also welcome systematic/scoping reviews and replication studies.
Prof. Dr. Kees Ahaus
Dr. Sandra S Sülz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic diseases
- collaboration in prevention and disease management strategies
- value-based health care
- improvement in health outcomes and reduction in costs
- alternative payment models
- designing behavioral/ technological interventions
- implementation strategies
- (pilot) evaluation
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