An innovative and holistic approach is necessary to enable effective management of the chronic diseases that affect the world’s population. Such complex diseases involve multi-factorial aetio-pathogenesis which is compounded by the burdens of life-style, societal (e.g. poverty) as well as environmental (e.g. pollution) factors, including an interplay with non-communicable diseases impacted by multi-morbidity and long-term conditions. Lifestyle factors (including smoking, obesity, and unhealthy diet) often augment the entity of disease manifestation and hamper the effectiveness of clinical management. Health inequalities also impact on the care and treatment of rare diseases, where there is significant variation in the availability of therapies, biomarkers and research activities around specific rare diseases.
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