Acceso a las acciones de prevención y control de la hipertensión arterial: una responsabilidad compartida

Hypertension is an increasing health problem with a great impact on society as it is considered one of the leading causes of death and disability. A literature review was made in order to study the accessibility to mainly non-pharmacologic prevention and control actions for this morbid condition. Pa...

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Fecha de publicación:
2013
Institución:
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Repositorio:
Repositorio UIS
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:noesis.uis.edu.co:20.500.14071/5720
Acceso en línea:
https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistamedicasuis/article/view/3652
https://noesis.uis.edu.co/handle/20.500.14071/5720
Palabra clave:
Health Services Accessibility
Prevention and control
Hypertension
Health Promotion
Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud
Prevención y Control
Hipertensión
Promoción de la Salud
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openAccess
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Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Summary:Hypertension is an increasing health problem with a great impact on society as it is considered one of the leading causes of death and disability. A literature review was made in order to study the accessibility to mainly non-pharmacologic prevention and control actions for this morbid condition. Patient-related factors are beliefs, unawareness of the disease or strategies for its control. At the health services level, it was found that the main factors are related to health practitioners’ abilities to give education or to promote healthy life styles, besides the organization of health institutions. Attention is called about the importance of the involvement of other society sectors to control this health issue, based on the fact that many proposed interventions go beyond the health services feld of action (MÉD.UIS. 2013;26(2):35-41).