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Capacity of Commune Health Stations in Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province, for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
- Source :
- Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 29:94S-101S
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- The primary health care system in Vietnam has been playing an important role in prevention and control of diseases. This study aimed to describe the capacity of commune health stations in Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative approaches) approach was applied to collect data in 20 commune health stations. The participants, including health workers, stakeholders, and patients with NCDs, were selected for the study. The findings reported that the main activities of prevention and control of NCDs at commune health stations (CHSs) still focused on information-education-community (IECs), unqualified for providing screening, diagnosis, and treatments of NCDs. The capacity for prevention and control of NCDs in CHSs was inadequate to provide health care services related to prevention and control of NCDs and unmet with the community’s demands. In order to ensure the role and implementation of primary care level, there is an urgent need to improve the capacity of CHSs for prevention and control of NCDs, particularly a national budget for NCDs prevention and control, the essential equipment and medicines recommended by the World Health Organization should be provided and available at the CHSs.
- Subjects :
- Capacity Building
Primary Health Care
Traditional medicine
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Control (management)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Primary health care
Primary care
World health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Vietnam
Environmental health
Chronic Disease
Health care
Humans
Medicine
Community Health Services
Rural Health Services
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
business
National budget
Qualitative Research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19412479 and 10105395
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e07bc0fe1e8d5cadb7beea0c25b22f94