Wenqi Hu
Systemic Design for Chronic Disease Management in China: A Solution for the Self-Management of Knee Osteoarthritis in Shanghai.
Rel. Pier Paolo Peruccio, Maurizio Vrenna. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Systemic Design, 2022
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Abstract
Chronic diseases present enormous challenges to every health system. In recent years, there is a growing consensus in the global health community that digital health technologies, such as wearable technology and artificial intelligence, can bring new opportunities to ensure better health and well-being for more people. It shows the potential of changing traditional doctor-patient relationships, communication methods, and patients’ passive medical experience. Tech is changing the way of managing diseases and it is worth discussing how to use it to help patients and medical staff manage chronic diseases. The population of chronic diseases in China is already large, and as China is aging rapidly, chronic disease prevention and treatment will become an increasingly important part of public health and medical services.
However, China's primary care (community healthcare) lacks enough suitable medical resources and has many other problems, making Chronic Disease Management (CDM) hard and inefficient
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