Strengthening the Health System to Better Confront Noncommunicable Diseases in India

Lessons for addressing noncommunicable diseases within a primary health-care system from the Ballabgarh project, India.

BACKGROUND Most patients with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) can be managed appropriately at the primary care level, using a simplified standard protocol supported by low-cost drugs. The primary care response to common NCDs is often unstructured and inadequate in low- and middle-income countries. This study assessed the feasibility of integration of NCD prevention and control within the primar...

HIV, aging and continuity care: strengthening health systems to support services for noncommunicable diseases in low-income countries.

Although health systems in most low-income countries largely provide episodic care for acute symptomatic conditions, many HIV programs have developed effective, locally owned and contextually appropriate policies, systems and tools to support chronic care services for persons living with HIV (PLWH). The continuity of care provided by such programs may be especially critical for older PLWH, who ...

Noncommunicable diseases.

From the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (D.J.H.); the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi (K.S.R.); and the World Heart Federation, Geneva (K.S.R.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hunter at the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, or at [email protected]...

Better noncommunicable disease outcomes: challenges and opportunities for health systems

A health policy and systems approach to addressing the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases in China

28 June, 2011 • Vol. 1 No. 1 www.jogh.org Over the past two decades, China has undergone a socio-economic transition unprecedented in human history in terms of its scale and the speed of change (1,2). It is estimated that, while three quarters of the Chinese population lived in rural areas until 1990, almost half were living in cities by 2009 (3). The effect of the one-child policy introduced i...