The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health

ABSTRACT: ABSTRACT Multimorbidity has become an increasingly prominent lens through which public health focuses on the ‘burden’ of ill health in ageing populations, with the promise of a more upstream and holistic approach. We use a situational analysis (drawing on documentary analysis and interviews with service providers, policy actors and people living with multiple conditions) in south London, UK, to explore what this lens brings into focus, and what it obscures. Local initiatives mobilised the concept of multimorbidity in initiatives for integrating health care systems and for commissioning for prevention as well as care. However, as the latest of a series of historical attempts to address system fragmentation, these initiatives generated more complexity, and a system orientated to constant tra

SUBMITTER: Lynch R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature