What are Chronic Health Conditions?
Chronic Health Conditions is a large category of disability and disease - the CDC's definition broadly includes any condition that lasts 1 year or longer and requires on-going medical attention or limits to daily living activities (taken from https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/index.htm). Some of the biggest chronic illness in the United States are heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, but many others fall into this category, such as allergies, arthritis, asthma, and other types of physical and mental impairments.
Featured Web Resources
- Global Alliance for Chronic DiseaseResearch institutes collaborating worldwide to help low and middle-income countries fight chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, mental illnesses, cancer, and lung diseases.
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health PromotionA national CDC program dedicated to researching and promoting healthy life-styles for Americans to prevent chronic diseases - a great source for data, programming, and news related to chronic conditions
- National Diabetes Prevention ProgramThe National DPP comes out of the CDC and was created to address prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in the US, promoting life-style change programs to manage or prevent diabetes, as well as providing information for those at risk and for health care professionals
- FARE for CollegeFARE (Food Allergy Research and Education) has a special page for college students to choose schools, prepare and seek resources for allergy protection, and find support and information
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of AmericaA national organization that provides resources for families, with resources and information to advocate and improve home and school life for children with asthma or other allergies
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
- Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - Documentary Film
This documentary is split into three episodes, each two hours long, about the history, science, and future of cancer research, along with many personal stories from cancer patients. Check out this movie from the library's Cayvan media collection!