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- Title
Padeciente: un aporte conceptual para la conformación de un modelo de atención a las enfermedades crónicas.
- Authors
Cardoso Gómez, Marco Antonio; Zarco Villavicencio, Alejandro; Aburto López, Irma Araceli; Rodriguez León, Mario Alfredo
- Abstract
Nowadays, in Mexico, we find ourselves in an epidemiologic and demographic transition distinguished, among other things, by the ageing of population and the increase of the chronic and degenerative diseases as causes of morbidity and mortality. All of this demands a different health care model, to the one already created, to deal with acute and contagious diseases, in which the sick person can regain health in relatively short time, not so in chronic degenerative diseases, in which the sick person "suffers" the diseases for a long time, affecting his familiar, occupational and social life. In this paper, we propose to use the term "patient" (paciente, in Spanish) for individuals with acute or contagious disease and "sufferer" (padeciente, in Spanish) for those with chronic conditions which involves the exploration of new alternatives for effective health care.
- Subjects
MEXICO; MEDICAL care of the chronically ill; SUFFERING; ALTERNATIVE treatment for chronic diseases; CHRONIC diseases -- Social aspects; AGE factors in disease; MEDICAL model; DISEASE management; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, 2014, Vol 57, Issue 5, p32
- ISSN
0026-1742
- Publication type
Article