Prevention and adherence in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal disease

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Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs) are chronic conditions that affect a substantial number of people. RMDs are significantly related to co-morbidity. Therefore, focusing on prevention in RMDs is of importance to promote and maintain health. Prevention includes primary-, secondary-, tertiary-, and clinical prevention. Primary prevention aims to prevent the onset of disease before the disease process begins, secondary prevention includes detecting and reducing disease and risk factors at the earliest possible point, and tertiary prevention aims to limit the influence of a recognized or verified disease and to address or reduce further development or worsening of the disease, including physical and psychosocial disability. Clinical prevention attempts to integrate prevention into the disease management to limit disease progression and prevent complications and relapse. This chapter will focus on the evidence for prevention and highlight how innovations and trends can contribute by using digital technologies as an example.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101525
JournalBest Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology
Volume34
Issue number2
Number of pages10
ISSN1521-6942
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Research areas

  • Adherence, eHealth, Prevention, Self-management, Telehealth

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