Necesidades y expectativas de las personas con enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y síndrome de fragilidad respecto al modelo actual de atención en salud

Abstract

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the result of interaction of genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors and are generally of long evolution, treatable, but not curable. Among these diseases are cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory and diabetes. (1) According to the figures published by the World Health Organization (WHO), this type of diseases in the world affect around 41 million people causing mortality, corresponding to 71% of deaths globally each year. (1 of these, cardiovascular diseases constitute the majority of deaths, being 17.9 million per year, followed by cancer with 9 million, the respiratory diseases with 3.9 million and diabetes with 1.6 million.