Call for papers on Self-management of chronic diseases

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Dear Netrumians,I am pasting below the Call for papers. Please send your titles by October 30, 2011 at the email ID mentioned below.

International Journal of

User Driven Healthcare

Call for Papers - Special

Issue – Self-management of chronic diseases

Submission due date: January 1, 2012

International Journal of User Driven Healthcare: www.igi-global.com/ijudh

Guest Editor : Anita Kotwani

User driven

healthcare (UDH) stems from a concept where all stakeholders involved in

healthcare participate enabled by evidence-based information focus on

healthcare values.

Introduction

Chronic diseases are diseases of long duration and

generally slow progression. Chronic diseases such as heart diseases, stroke,

cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are by far the leading cause

of mortality in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. Of these, 72% were

estimated to have occurred in developing countries. There is increasing

evidence to suggest that the epidemiologic transition is well underway in less

industrialized countries and chronic diseases are on rise in developing

countries as well.

Chronic diseases have multidimensional impact on the

community as well as on individual and on Nation and it requires a lot of

healthcare resources to manage them. International guidelines clearly state

that the aim of management of chronic diseases is to achieve and maintain

control. For most of the chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and

hyperlipidemia medicines are available for control and maintenance of diseases.

Pharmaceutical therapy is most effective if patients use medicines regularly,

but the main problem of long term use of these medicines. Patients generally

stop medicines once the acute phase is over, they become symptom free or the

blood levels (in case of sugar and lipids) come within normal range. Therefore,

another very important measure in treating chronic diseases is to optimise

self-management. Self management of chronic diseases is an integral component

of treatment and doctors need to give equal importance to this aspect apart

from prescribing medicines to patients for chronic diseases. Patients are equal

partners in management of their disease but need to be educated by doctors or

medical staff for self-management. Outcomes of medical management in patients

with chronic illness are determined not only by objective factors but also by

behaviour and social factors. Illness perceptions and low-control beliefs are

associated with difficult-to-treat chronic illnesses. The implications of such

findings are increasingly important and are incorporated into guidelines for

management and translated into written action plans and self-management

instructions.

Objective

of the special issue

The Special Issue will focus on the rational and

importance of self-management of chronic illnesses in treating and control of

chronic diseases. Evidence-based data will be presented in the form of case

studies, baseline surveys and interventions studies in support of

self-management of chronic diseases.

Suggested

topics

Topics to be discussed in this special issue

include (but are not limited to) the following:

Burden

of chronic diseasesRole

of self-management in chronic diseasesPatient

Self-management of acute asthma/diabetes/or any chronic illnessSelf-regulation

and self-management in asthma/diabetes/hypertension/…Patient’s

perspective: Adherence or non-adherence to therapy for chronic illnessesGeneral

practitioners knowledge about self-management of chronic illnessesIllness

perception by patients in relation to any chronic diseaseAre

doctors imparting any education or action plan to patients for their

chronic diseases?

Submission

Researchers and

practitioners and patients are invited to submit papers for this special theme

issue on Self-management of

chronic diseases on or before January 1, 2012.

All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another

publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'’S GUIDELINES FOR

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS here

http://new.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf

All submitted papers will be reviewed on a

double-blind peer review

basis.

Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

Refs:

To be in APA format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to

the attention of:

Dr. Anita Kotwani

Associate Editor

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology

V. P. Chest Institute

University of Delhi

Delhi, India

Email anitakotwani@...

External

link for more information:

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide...

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