%0 Journal Article
%T Clinician's Commentary on Figueiredo et al.
%A Samantha L. Harrison
%J Archive of "Physiotherapy Canada".
%D 2017
%R 10.3138/ptc.2015-68-CC
%X The prevalence of chronic diseases threatens to overwhelm Canada's health care system: Of total direct costs, 67% are being spent on patients with chronic conditions.2 Canada is not alone in facing this challenge; 70% and 86% of the health care budgets of the United Kingdom and United States, respectively, are also spent on chronic disease services.
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5280043/