Multimorbidity and Health Systems: Challenges and Priorities

Maternal health in Brazil: priorities and challenges.

Research priorities in geriatric palliative care: multimorbidity.

With global aging and scientific advances extending survival, the number of adults experiencing multiple chronic conditions has grown substantially and is projected to increase by another third between 2000 and 2030. Among the many challenges posed by multimorbidity, some of the most pressing include how to characterize and measure comorbid conditions, understand symptoms and illness burden, an...

Health systems priorities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: challenges and strategic directions

Executive summary The aim of this technical paper is to assist the Member States in acquiring a perspective of health system priorities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, identify the current challenges and carve out appropriate strategies. A fundamental theme that underlies health system priority-setting in the Eastern Mediterranean Region is the primary health care approach and the reiterat...

Challenges of managing people with multimorbidity in today’s healthcare systems

Multimorbidity is a growing issue and poses a major challenge to health care systems around the world. Multimorbidity is related to ageing but many studies have now shown that it is also socially patterned, being more common and occurring at an earlier age in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. There is lack of research on patients with multimorbidity, and thus guidelines are based on sing...

Multimorbidity and equity in health

Two major challenges are at play in the design of current and future health care delivery: the growing diversity of patient populations and the increasing burden of multiple long-term conditions. The growing prevalence of multiple co-occurring conditions signifies a greater burden for patients and a resultant increasing need for health care resources [1,2]. Yet, health care systems are ill suit...