Health systems performance for hypertension control using a cascade of care approach in South Africa, 2011-2017.

ABSTRACT: Hypertension is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. In South Africa, the government has employed a whole systems approach to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We used a novel incident care cascade approach to measure changes in the South African health system's ability to manage hypertension between 2011 and 2017. We used data from Waves 1-5 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to estimate trends in the hypertension care cascade and unmet treatment need across four successive cohorts with incident hypertension. We used a negative binomial regression to identify factors that may predict higher rates of hypertension control, controlling for socio-demographic and healthcare factors. In 2011, 19.6% (95%CI 14.2, 26.2) of individuals with inciden

SUBMITTER: Benade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484448 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature