Cultural and Spiritual Dimension of Chronic Disease: An Important Concern for Practitioners

In the present day, it is no doubt that chronic diseases become the important part of human illness. Due to the advanced biomedical technology, the management of acute disease has been abruptly improved for years. Nevertheless, the left problem on chronic diseases, which are usually relating to poor environment and behavior, still exits and become a great concern at present. It is no doubt that there are very high rates of several chronic illnesses such as diabetes mellitus reported from any countries around the world. The management of the chronic illness becomes another focus in medicine and public health globally. The new diagnostic and therapeutic tools are available for management of chronic diseases. However, the problem is still prevalent. Since the chronic illness means lasting for a long time, the patient compliance to the treatment is very important