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Diabetes management in Guinea Bissau: a situational analysis

INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing commitment in the African Region towards diabetes care, following acknowledgement that it is an important public health issue which needs to be addressed in order to improve population health. We conducted a situational analysis of diabetes care in Guinea Bissau...

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Autores principales: Correia, Jorge César, Lopes, Adalgisa, Iala, Cumba Bispo, Sanca, N’Boma Adriano, Bidonga, Augusto, Lagger, Grégoire, Golay, Alain, Castellsague, Montserrat Perolini
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6856535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31762879
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.10.19874
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author Correia, Jorge César
Lopes, Adalgisa
Iala, Cumba Bispo
Sanca, N’Boma Adriano
Bidonga, Augusto
Lagger, Grégoire
Golay, Alain
Castellsague, Montserrat Perolini
author_facet Correia, Jorge César
Lopes, Adalgisa
Iala, Cumba Bispo
Sanca, N’Boma Adriano
Bidonga, Augusto
Lagger, Grégoire
Golay, Alain
Castellsague, Montserrat Perolini
author_sort Correia, Jorge César
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description INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing commitment in the African Region towards diabetes care, following acknowledgement that it is an important public health issue which needs to be addressed in order to improve population health. We conducted a situational analysis of diabetes care in Guinea Bissau in order to identify the main issues faced in the management of the disease in this country. METHODS: The study design was qualitative and data collection was done using semi directive interviews and focus groups with participants involved in primary diabetes care and management in Guinea Bissau (health care professionals, non-governmental organization staff, traditional healers) and patients. The data was analyzed using the five-phase approach of the thematic analysis framework. RESULTS: The major themes identified included: the lack of specialists and properly trained healthcare personnel; no standardized care protocol for diagnosis, treatment, follow up and proper management for diabetic patients; resources poor primary health care settings; no validated epidemiological dataset on prevalence and the lack of awareness about diabetes (in general population and also in medical staff). CONCLUSION: This first situational analysis can serve as a baseline to develop an action plan to address the main issues identified.
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spelling pubmed-68565352019-11-22 Diabetes management in Guinea Bissau: a situational analysis Correia, Jorge César Lopes, Adalgisa Iala, Cumba Bispo Sanca, N’Boma Adriano Bidonga, Augusto Lagger, Grégoire Golay, Alain Castellsague, Montserrat Perolini Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing commitment in the African Region towards diabetes care, following acknowledgement that it is an important public health issue which needs to be addressed in order to improve population health. We conducted a situational analysis of diabetes care in Guinea Bissau in order to identify the main issues faced in the management of the disease in this country. METHODS: The study design was qualitative and data collection was done using semi directive interviews and focus groups with participants involved in primary diabetes care and management in Guinea Bissau (health care professionals, non-governmental organization staff, traditional healers) and patients. The data was analyzed using the five-phase approach of the thematic analysis framework. RESULTS: The major themes identified included: the lack of specialists and properly trained healthcare personnel; no standardized care protocol for diagnosis, treatment, follow up and proper management for diabetic patients; resources poor primary health care settings; no validated epidemiological dataset on prevalence and the lack of awareness about diabetes (in general population and also in medical staff). CONCLUSION: This first situational analysis can serve as a baseline to develop an action plan to address the main issues identified. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6856535/ /pubmed/31762879 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.10.19874 Text en © Jorge César Correia et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Correia, Jorge César
Lopes, Adalgisa
Iala, Cumba Bispo
Sanca, N’Boma Adriano
Bidonga, Augusto
Lagger, Grégoire
Golay, Alain
Castellsague, Montserrat Perolini
Diabetes management in Guinea Bissau: a situational analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6856535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31762879
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.34.10.19874
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