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According to the The Care Continiuum Alliance (2010), disease management is a system of coordinated health care interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self‐care is significant. What makes caring for patients with chronic diseases problematic is that the patients usually have multiple chronic conditions (e.g., the patient with congestive heart failure who also has hypertension, diabetes, emphysema, urinary incontinence, and chronic pain). Heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes are the leading cause of mortality in the world (WHO, 2019). Common, modifiable risk factors underlie the major NCDs. They include tobacco, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity, overweight/obesity, raised blood pressure, raised blood sugar, and raised cholesterol (WHO, 2019).