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From the Editor

Reform Chronic Illness Care? Yes, We Can

Ah, humanity. Having eliminated many causes of acute diseases, we’ve achieved longer lives plagued with chronic ones. Sometimes we pass along genetic defects that predispose our offspring to these conditions; more often, we help bring chronic illness upon ourselves, through environmental exposure or our own lifestyles. Now three-quarters of the $2 trillion-plus that we spend on U.S. health care each year goes to paying the bills for chronic illness: cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, cancers, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, depression. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, three out of every five deaths—four out of five in low- and middle-income . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan Dentzer, Editor-In-Chief

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