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• Disease Management Programs: Improving health while reducing costs?

  Visit profiles to view data profiles and issue briefs from the series Challenges for the 21st Century: Chronic and Disabling Conditions as well as data profiles on young retirees and older workers.

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• The Decade Preceding Medicare Coverage

  Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. Insurance matters for people with chronic conditions Health insurance is an

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• HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment: Are public policies keeping pace with an evolving epidemic?

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• Older Hispanic Americans

  Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. Less care for chronic conditions Similar proportions of Hispanic and non-Hi

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• Low Health Literacy Skills Increase Annual Health Care Expenditures by $73 Billion

  Health literacy refers to the set of skills needed to read, understand, and act on basic health care information. Over 90 million adults with low health literacy skills (see box below) have limited a

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• Cultural Competence in Health Care: Is it important for people with chronic conditions?

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• How Do Family Caregivers Fare?

  Number 3, June 2005 Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. A Closer Look at Their Experiences Caregiving is often l

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• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. A chronic condition that limits activities Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Di

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• Caregiving and Paid Work

  Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. Are there trade-offs? Nearly one-third -- 32 percent -- of all primary fami

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• Cancer: A major national concern

  Visit profiles to view data profiles on chronic and disabling conditions and on young retirees and older workers. Americans consistently rank cancer as one of the most important health pro

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