Advances in Chronic Disease Management

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic diseases are now the dominant drivers of preventable mortality, disability, and health expenditure worldwide. Their governance challenges go far beyond clinical management: chronic conditions unfold across long time horizons, require sustained adherence and lifestyle change, and depend on coordinated action among healthcare providers, patients and families, payers, communities, and broader social and digital environments. As health systems confront population ageing, multimorbidity, and widening inequities, improving chronic disease governance has become a central task for building resilient, people-centered healthcare system.

In this Topic, we focus on the governance of chronic diseases across policy, organizational, and community settings. We welcome research on governance models and institutional design; integrated care and medical–prevention collaboration; performance measurement and accountability; behavioral and incentive-based policy tools; digital health and AI-enabled governance (e.g., decision support, risk stratification, remote monitoring, and data-driven management); equity and access; patient engagement and trust; and comparative or case-based evidence on implementation, scale-up, and real-world impact. We are especially interested in work that bridges micro-level behavioral mechanisms with macro-level system arrangements, and that translates governance innovations into measurable health outcomes.

The Topic “Advances in Chronic Disease Management” provides a platform to publish high-quality reviews and original research papers. We encourage diverse methodological approaches, including quantitative studies, experiments, mixed methods, qualitative case analyses, implementation research, and policy evaluations. Please join us in creating a rigorous and practice-relevant collection of articles to advance governance solutions for chronic disease prevention and long-term management. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Feng Jiang
Dr. Yuhui Ruan
Dr. Yilang Tang
Topic Editors