Research Article: Chinese Community Home-Based Aging Institution Elders’ Self-Management of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Its Interrelationships with Social Support, E-Health Literacy, and Self Efficacy: A Serial Multiple Mediation Model
Abstract:
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and type diabetes form the largest percentage of the Chinese burden of morbidity and mortality. The available estimates suggest that by , chronic NCDs will impose a disease burden of nearly $ trillion on low- and middle-income countries. The healthcare costs for chronic diseases account for % of China’s total public expenditure on diseases. Currently, there are approximately million Chinese people with one or more NCDs, and this number is rising with the aging of the population. There are million old people aged and above in China who suffer from chronic diseases, with more than three-fourths of the old people population suffering from the coexistence of multiple chronic NCDs. Importantly, as China is an aging society, the population base of patients with chronic NCDs is large, the average life expectancy is longer, and the public health resources are more limited. Moreover, these patients bring greater financial and emotional burdens to their family caregivers. All of this poses a huge challenge to the public health and primary healthcare systems of China. A current top priority in China’s public health industry is actively promoting healthy aging and strengthening the prevention and management of old people with chronic NCDs.
Introduction:
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and type diabetes form the largest percentage of the Chinese burden of morbidity and mortality. The available estimates suggest that by , chronic NCDs will impose a disease burden of nearly $ trillion on low- and middle-income countries. The healthcare costs for chronic diseases account for % of China’s total public expenditure on diseases. Currently, there are approximately million…
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