Treating Chronic Diseases

Chronic diseases can be secondary to as persistently held conditions that do not cure easily while others are totally incurable. Some of the chronic conditions that affect human beings include cancer, arthritis, obesity, diabetes, and epilepsy. According to the world health organisation (WHO), chronic diseases are the leading causes of deaths in the world. Chronic diseases effects have caused devastation not only in the health sector but the economy as a whole. As the number of people with chronic diseases increases, it causes the economy of United States to go downturn (Rosenthal, 2013). If no manageable, these chronic diseases can make the patients really sick and even death. These conditions affect people and may lead to increased absences in the workplace, longer stays in the hospital and increase in diability. Labour cost will rise for business and the government. This means that there would be a decreased of number of people available to work making the demand for job
To the nation, the cost of treating chronic diseases is increasing day by day. For instance, pneumonia medication is costly and most of the time a nation undertakes to foots the bill on behalf of its citizens. Another example medications of Cancer are extremely expensive and that without counting the cost of side effects of the disease. Having the cost of treating chronic diseases is three times more than the cost of treating normal conditions. There is increased attention required by the nurse practitioners. Particularly, this is sacrificing and leaves of the nurse practitioners exhausted. Some of the chronic diseases such as C.difficile infections are contagious, which means the nurse practitioners will be affected if they do not have adequate protection. Evident from the above discussion is that chronic disease has increased the cost of health care not only to the nation but to the individuals as