Chronic disease management model in Acibadem Mobile Health

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Introduction: In the last century, due to the rapid development of science, changes in dietary habits, in parallel with these, newly developed drugs and vaccines, which led to take control of communicable has caused to an increase in life expectancy. The increase in life expectancy also increased the incidence of non-communicable chronic diseases. Especially in developing countries every year eight million premature deaths, which are under the age of sixty, occur. These are called preventable premature deaths.(WHO, 2008) According to the report of An Unhealthy America : The economic burden of chronic diseases, which was declared by United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the seven chronic diseases (hypertension, Heart Disease, Lung Disease, Diabetes, Stroke, Psychiatric Disorders and Cancers) cost 1.3 trillion $ annually to the USA . And if necessary precautions are not taken in the year 2050, this cost will reach 7.5 trillion $. According to the data given by Turkish Republic Social Security Agency, in 2010 the treatment of chronic diseases cost 18.7 billion $ (Turkey Budget Revenues in 2010: 133 billion $, Expenses: 161 Billion $) In 2010, the cost of diabetes was 500 billion $ to world, it was 7.2 billion $ to Turkey. The seven most common chronic diseases in Turkey and in the world • Hypertension • Heart Disease • Trachea, Bronchus and Lung Disease • Diabetes • Cerebrovascular Diseases