Assessment Of Facility-Level Preparedness At Primary And Secondary Health Care Levels For Prevention And Control Of Non-Communicable Diseases
Assessment Of Facility-Level Preparedness For Prevention And Control Of Non-Communicable Diseases
Abstract
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are of significant public health concern, causing high mortality, lifelong morbidity and high out of pocket expenditure. Primary and secondary level health facilities can play a key role for screening, treatment, and referral and follow up services. With this view, study is designed to find out facility-level preparedness at primary and secondary health care levels. Identified gaps though this tool will be valuable for decision makers to develop NCDs prevention and control services. Objective: To find out facility-level gaps for prevention and control of Non-communicable diseases and To prepare monitoring tool for NCD prevention and control services Methodology: Baseline study has been done with pre tested standardized checklist. Key details has been taken from responsible health personnel working at primary and secondary health care levels – primary health center (PHC) ,urban health center (UHC) and community health center (CHC) . Availability of equipments and Treatment guidelines, health personnel training need assessment, drug supply, and laboratory services has been assessed. Results: Gaps regarding were lack of trained health personnel, no system of collection of health statistics about non communicable diseases, Diagnostic criteria, Treatment protocol & Referral criteria was not available. Only screening criteria of diabetes and hypertension were available. Conclusion: Gaps exist in the human resource capacity and service delivery at the primary care level in both urban and rural area and secondary care level at community health center. [ Ahir G Natl J Integr Res Med, 2018; 9(6):36-39]
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