Assessment of availability, readiness, and challenges for scaling-up hypertension management services at primary healthcare facilities, Central Highland region, Vietnam, 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Vietnam aims for 95% of commune health stations (CHSs) to have functional hypertension management programs by 2025. However, limited resources may impede the Central Highland region health system from achieving this goal. We assessed the availability and readiness of hypertension management services at CHSs in the Central Highland region and identified challenges to facilitate evidence-based planning.

Methods

We used a mixed-methods cross-sectional design to assess hypertension management services using WHO's service availability and readiness assessment (SARA) tools in all 579 CHSs in the region, combined with twenty in-depth interviews of hypertension program focal points at communal, district, and provincial levels in all four provinces. We descriptively anal

SUBMITTER: Hoang TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10315019 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature