Allotey, PascaleReidpath, DanielYasin, ShajahanChan, Carina KAikins, Ama de-Graft2023-03-302023-03-302010-11-11Allotey, P., Reidpath, D.D., Yasin, S., Chan, C.K. and de-Graft Aikins, A. (2011) ‘Rethinking health-care systems: a focus on chronicity’, The Lancet, 377(9764), pp. 450–451. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61856-9.0140-6736https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/13066https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61856-9Daniel Reidpath - ORCID: 0000-0002-8796-0420 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-0420Item is not available in this repository.Health-care systems, including those in countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, face a crisis of an increasing burden of chronic disease aggravated by ageing populations and complicated by the continuing risks of infectious diseases and global pandemics. The issues for health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries are compounded by persistent diseases of poverty, and the inadequately understood comorbidities of both infectious and non-communicable diseases.450-451enArticle