Chronic Illness Defined: The Spoon Theory and Social Media

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MedTruth
Nov 4 · 8 min read

As lifestyles modernize from rapidly growing technology, and health care innovations increase the human lifespan, the prevalence of chronic illness surges.

In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that one of the greatest challenges facing health care systems in the 21st-century world would be the increasing burden of chronic disease. Yet chronic health…

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