Blood pressure control in Turkiye: A primary healthcare pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Hypertension is present in almost a third of Türkiye's adult population. The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Türkiye in conjunction with the World Health Organization, rolled out a pilot primary health care model from February 2019 to 2020 to improve hypertension screening, management, and follow-up across the provinces of Erzincan, Çankırı and Uşak. The model was conducted in selected family health centers for one year and included multiple interventions - training of multidisciplinary primary care teams, implementation of evidence-based, standardised clinical guidelines related to monitoring and treatment of hypertension, clinical supervision and performance monitoring, and provision of health education to hypertensive individuals. Repeat surveys of population-based random samples

SUBMITTER: Ekinci B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11399813 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature