Chronic conditions and co-morbidity among residents of British Columbia | iii 1. Introduction Chronic health conditions have been identified The purpose of this report is to profile patterns as a key challenge for health care during the of chronic health conditions among British twenty-first century.1 Chronic conditions affect a Columbia residents, the presence of multiple significant proportion o [...] Combining prevalence and impact: Chronic conditions were classified according to both 2.4 Classifying chronic conditions prevalence and impact since both prevalence In order to focus the analysis from chronic and the expected impact of a chronic condition conditions generally to a relevant subset of contribute to the overall impact of that condition conditions, chronic conditions were further on h [...] Compared with co-morbidity were expected to use 3.5 times the the adult population average (1.0), adults with resources of the population average, and those acute conditions were expected to use, on average, with chronic condition(s) and very high co- 0.4 times the resources of the adult population morbidity were expected to use almost 10 times (Table 3). [...] Those with of individuals with diabetes were in the high co- a chronic condition and low co-morbidity were morbidity group and 7 per cent were in the very expected to use about 0.5 times the resources of high co-morbidity category (Figure 8). [...] As shown in Table 4, on average, 8 per cent of those with depression, and 11 per individuals with chronic conditions used 4 times cent of those with asthma were in the very high the inpatient hospital days, and twice the physician co-morbidity and high resource use group.