Optimal outcomes in population health require both efficacious treatments and adherence to those
treatments.Whether the treatment involves taking medication properly,making and keeping health
care appointments, or self-managing other behaviours that influence the onset, course or prognosis of
an illness; all other things being equal, success is determined by adherence behaviour. Patients, health
care providers, researchers, funders and policy-makers, all have an interest in ensuring that effective biomedical
and behavioural therapies for chronic illnesses are “used as prescribed”. However, empirical
studies have consistently found that levels of compliance or adherence are often far from optimal (1,2).
Because the burden of illness in the population has shifted toward chronic diseases, the problem of
poor adherence is of major concern to all stakeholders in the health care system.This is because the risk
of poor adherence increases with the duration and complexity of treatment regimens and both long
duration and complex treatment are inherent to chronic illnesses.
Optimal outcomes in population health require both efficacious treatments and adherence to thosetreatments.Whether the treatment involves taking medication properly,making and keeping healthcare appointments, or self-managing other behaviours that influence the onset, course or prognosis ofan illness; all other things being equal, success is determined by adherence behaviour. Patients, healthcare providers, researchers, funders and policy-makers, all have an interest in ensuring that effective biomedicaland behavioural therapies for chronic illnesses are “used as prescribed”. However, empiricalstudies have consistently found that levels of compliance or adherence are often far from optimal (1,2).Because the burden of illness in the population has shifted toward chronic diseases, the problem ofpoor adherence is of major concern to all stakeholders in the health care system.This is because the riskof poor adherence increases with the duration and complexity of treatment regimens and both longduration and complex treatment are inherent to chronic illnesses.
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