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Healthcare Professional Shortage and Task-Shifting to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Implications for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Tsolekile, Lungiswa Primrose, Abrahams-Gessel, Shafika, Puoane, Thandi·2015·Current Cardiology Reports
DOI 10.1007/s11886-015-0672-yPMC PMC13718040
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Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) account for 18 million of annual global deaths with more than three quarters of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In LMIC, the distribution of risk factors is heterogeneous, with urban areas being the worst affected. Despite the availability of effective CVD interventions in developed countries, many poor countries still struggle to provide care due to lack of resources. In addition, many LMIC suffer from staff shortages which pose additional burden to the healthcare system. Regardless of these challenges, there are potentially effective strategies such as task-shifting which have been used for chronic conditions such as HIV to address the human resource crisis. We propose that through task-shifting, certain tasks related to prevention be shifted to non-physician health workers as well as non-nurse health workers such as community health workers. Such steps will allow better coverage of segments of the underserved population. We recognise that for task-shifting to be effective, issues such as clearly defined roles, evaluation, on-going training, and supervision must be addressed.

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  1. Organization WH. Task shifting to tackle health worker shortages. Geneva: WHO; 2007.
  2. Dambisya Y. Task shifting in Uganda: case study. Washington, DC: Futures Group, Health; 2010.
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Authors
Tsolekile, L. P., Abrahams-Gessel, S., & Puoane, T.
Affiliations
University of the Western Cape (ZA)
Corresponding author
Puoane, Thandi
ORCID
Venue
Current Cardiology Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2015-10-19
Volume
17
Issue
12
Pages
115-115
ISSN
  • 1523-3782 (ISSN-L)
  • 1534-3170
DOI
10.1007/s11886-015-0672-y
PMC
PMC13718040
OpenAlex
W1782685580
Cited by
52
References
35
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FWCI
0.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Current Cardiology Reports (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Surgery
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
Keywords
task shifting, cardiovascular disease prevention, health workforce shortage, community health workers, non-physician health workers, low- and middle-income countries, health worker training and supervision, underserved populations
MeSH terms
Attitude of Health Personnel, Cardiovascular Diseases, Community Health Workers, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Delivery of Health Care, Developing Countries, Health Workforce, Health Priorities, Health Services Accessibility, Humans

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