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Advances in Public Health and Healthcare Management for Chronic Care

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Chronic Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 351

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fabio Petrelli

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School of Pharmacy, Polo Medicina Sperimentale e Sanità Pubblica "Stefania Scuri", Via Madonna delle Carceri 9, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: diabetes public health; diabetes management; diabetes health management; diabetes health care; diabetes chronic care; diabetes nursing care
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Dr. Giovanni Cangelosi

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Units of Diabetology, ASUR Marche, Area Vasta 4, 63900 Fermo, Italy
Interests: public health; chronic disease; healthcare management; prevention; health management; lifestyle medicine; nursing practice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Healthcare will focus on the management of chronic diseases. Systematic/scoping/narrative reviews or protocols of reviews related to these issues are welcome. One of the primary focuses is to identify news model of care for different chronic diseases in Medical and Nursing practice. These approaches should promote an improving satisfaction for patients and the community. In chronic care, the personalized management of care improves clinical and psychosocial outcomes, and innovative models have been recommended in several areas of clinical practice, with significantly positive results in the quality of care and patient satisfaction, emphasizing the individual needs of each patient, and directing care in this same direction. This Special Issue aimed to demonstrated with our studies that it is necessary to place the patient in the center of care, to increase better results and health-related quality of life in general. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following:

  • Investigation based on practice and personalized care approaches in chronic care;
  • New managed models in chronic diseases or other condition with long-term care;
  • Studies investigating promotion of care;
  • Nurse-led care;
  • Intervention for the management of chronic diseases;
  • New approaches of chronic care;
  • Health Economics evaluation.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Medicina.

Prof. Dr. Fabio Petrelli
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Dr. Giovanni Cangelosi
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • chronic diseases
  • long-term care
  • nursing practice
  • public health
  • patient satisfaction
  • health economic

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Effects of Active Spinal Orthosis on Fatty Infiltration in Paraspinal Muscles in Kyphotic Women with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture—Sub-Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
by Marco Hiller, Matthias Kohl, Oliver Chaudry, Klaus Engelke, Simon von Stengel and Wolfgang Kemmler
Healthcare 2025, 13(11), 1262; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13111262 - 27 May 2025
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Background/Objectives: Fatty infiltration of muscle is a predictor of degeneration. The present study determined the effect of an active spinal orthosis on muscle quality as determined by fatty infiltration in paraspinal muscles in older women with vertebral fractures and kyphosis. Methods: [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Fatty infiltration of muscle is a predictor of degeneration. The present study determined the effect of an active spinal orthosis on muscle quality as determined by fatty infiltration in paraspinal muscles in older women with vertebral fractures and kyphosis. Methods: Twenty-one community-dwelling women ≥65 years with chronic back pain and vertebral fractures ≥3 months were randomly allocated to a group which wore the Spinomed active orthoses 2 × 2–3 h/d for 16 weeks (SOG: n = 11) or an untreated control group (CG: n = 10). Outcomes of the present study were parameters related to fatty infiltration of the musculi erector spinae and psoas major as determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We applied a per protocol analysis; data were consistently adjusted for baseline values applying an ANCOVA. Results: Despite positive trends for all MRI parameters, no significant effects of the active spinal orthosis on fat infiltration of the musculus erector spinae were observed. Significant positive effects were, however, determined for musculus psoas major intra-fascial volume (p = 0.021; d’: 1.18) and muscle tissue volume (p = 0.001; d’: 1.80). No further significant effects on m. psoas major intra-fascial or muscle tissue average fat fraction or m. psoas major intramuscular adipose tissue volume were assessed. Of importance, no changes in variables that might have confounded the present result were reported. Conclusions: In line with recent exercise studies, the present high-volume, low-intensity back-strengthening intervention, induced by an active spinal orthosis, failed to generate significant effects on MRI measures of the m. erector spinae. On the other hand, significant effects on m. psoas major hypertrophy, albeit not fatty muscle infiltration, were determined. This new and unexpected finding should be confirmed by future studies. Full article
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