Ending the Chronic Liver Disease Public Health Threat: Systemic Challenges Through the Patient Lens

For those with lived-experience, liver disease is not encountered as a set of discrete conditions—viral, metabolic, or alcohol-related—but through fragmented and often inaccessible systems of care. Individuals often move through multiple entry points such as primary care, emergency settings, and/or specialty clinics without clear next steps, continuity, or coordination.