Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980. Seventy-five percent of patients with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries, such as Guatemala, where health care systems are often poorly equipped for chronic disease management. Community health workers (CHWs) and mobile health technology have increasingly been applied to the diabetes epidemic in these settings, although mostly in supportive rather than primary roles in diabetes management. We sought to improve diabetes care in rural Guatemala through the development of a CHW-led diabetes program and a smartphone application to provide CHWs with clinical decision support.

Methods

We worked with our local partners to develop a program model and the smartphone application (using the CommC

SUBMITTER: Duffy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784066 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature