Evaluation of Community-based Hypertension Control Programme in South Korea
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
; : 143-148, 2018.
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>INTRODUCTION</b>This study was conducted to provide an overview of the community-based hypertension and diabetes control programme of 19 cities in Korea and to evaluate its effectiveness in controlling hypertension at the community level.</p><p><b>MATERIALS AND METHODS</b>In this longitudinal observational study, we analysed the data of 117,264 hypertensive patients aged ≥65 years old from the time of their first enrolment in July 2012 to October 2013 (up to their 2-year follow-up).</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The hypertension control rate of 72.5% at the time of enrolment increased to 81.3% and 82.4% at 1 and 2 years after enrolment. Treatment continuity, completion of hypertension self-management education, and longer enrolment duration in the programme contributed to improvements in hypertension control rate.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>This programme was characterised by a public health-clinical partnership at the community level. Despite its simplicity, the programme was evaluated as a successful attempt to control hypertension among patients aged >65 years at the community level.</p>
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Main subject:
Self Care
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Program Evaluation
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Patient Education as Topic
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Longitudinal Studies
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Community Networks
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Drug Therapy
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Republic of Korea
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Hypertension
Type of study:
Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Year:
2018
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Article