@inbook{7aeefe36cb0f4c3aa4dfb66079cf65db,
title = "Chronic illness",
abstract = "Increasing numbers of people are living with chronic illness worldwide, creating challenges for individuals, their families, healthcare professionals, and policy-makers. Social sciences have theoretical and conceptual frameworks that offer insights into the experience and management of chronic illnesses, cultural understandings of illness, and the impact of chronicity on illness communication. They also provide important methodological tools for carrying out healthcare research. This chapter introduces these contributions, with a focus on culturally-based explanatory models of illness, temporalities of illness and the concept of biographical disruption, the impact of structural inequalities on the lived experience of people with chronic illness, and the communication of chronic illness over extended periods of time.",
keywords = "Chronic disease, Care, Illness communication, Understandings of illness",
author = "Dima Rusho and Narelle Warren",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.4337/9781800885691.ch04",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781800885684",
series = "Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing",
pages = "18--23",
editor = "Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan",
booktitle = "Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}