What were thought to be single diseases are being split into separate ailments.
It is true that with increasing age, people will live with multiple long-term conditions, not single diseases; that some will become frail, or experience dementia or poor mobility.
Address forgotten causes: Many forms of innovative financing mechanisms seem to target single diseases or issues, but for healthcare to be truly universal the global health community will need to make a concerted effort to focus on less popular causes.
It is critical of emphasis on single diseases and points out that this is being done at the neglect of basic health care systems.
Most programs target the treatment of single diseases in a vacuum, and don't account for the fact that the majority of Medicare beneficiaries with, for example, congestive heart failure also have other chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, lung disease and dementia.
Such chips have been crucial in dividing what appear, under the microscope, to be single diseases into smaller groups based on their precise molecular biology (as in the case of lung cancer mentioned earlier).
Although the course of single diseases can be studied using traditional epidemiologic techniques, these methods cannot capture the complex joint evolutionary course of multiple disorders.
Population-targeted mass campaigns have, previously, successfully been implemented for single diseases such as malaria and HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) interventions.
Furthermore, single diseases are unequally distributed within the multimorbidity spectrum.
However, future costs cannot be calculated as the sum of the costs of single diseases [ 10].
Moreover, this is the first study to examine all patients, rather than single diseases or specialties.
