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Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Hearts Initiative offers technical packages to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases through population‐wide and targeted health services interventions. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has led implementation of the HEARTS in the Americas Initiative since 2016. The authors mapped the developmental stages, barriers, and facilitators to implementation among the 371 primary health care centers in the participating 12 countries. The authors used the qualitative method of document review to examine cumulative country reports, technical meeting notes, and reports to regional stakeholders. Common implementation barriers include segmentation of health systems, overcoming health care professionals' scope of practice legal restrictions, and lack of health information systems limiting operational evaluation and quality improvement mechanisms. Main implementation facilitators include political support from ministries of health and leading scientific societies, PAHO's role as a regional catalyst to implementation, stakeholder endorsement demonstrated by incorporating HEARTS into official documents, and having a health system oriented to primary health care. Key lessons include the need for political commitment and cultivating on‐the‐ground leadership to initiate a shift in hypertension care delivery, accompanied by specific progress in the development of standardized treatment protocols and a set of high‐quality medicines. By systematizing an implementation strategy to ease integration of interventions into delivery processes, the program strengthened technical leadership and ensured sustainability. These study findings will aid the regional approach by providing a staged planning model that incorporates lessons learned. A systematic approach to implementation will enhance equity, efficiency, scale‐up, and sustainability, and ultimately improve population hypertension control.

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Title
Mapping stages, barriers and facilitators to the implementation of HEARTS in the Americas initiative in 12 countries: A qualitative study
Author
Giraldo, Gloria P 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Joseph, Kristy T 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Angell, Sonia Y 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Campbell, Norm R C 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Connell, Kenneth 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; DiPette, Donald J 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Escobar, Maria C 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yamile Valdés‐Gonzalez 8   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jaffe, Marc G 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Taraleen Malcolm 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Maldonado, Javier 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Patricio Lopez‐Jaramillo 12   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Michaels Hecht Olsen 13   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ordunez, Pedro 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Non‐Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA 
 Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 
 Department of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AL, Canada 
 University of West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados 
 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 
 Pan American Health Organization, Santiago, Chile 
 University Hospital “General Calixto Garcia”, Havana, Cuba 
 Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA, USA 
10  Pan American Health Organization, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 
11  Secretariat of Health of Bogota, Bogota, Colombia 
12  Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group, London, UK; University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia 
13  Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group, London, UK; Holbaek Hospital, Holbaek, Denmark; University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 
Pages
755-765
Section
Special Section Title: Global cardiovascular disease prevention and management Guest Editors: Michael Hecht Olsen, MD, PhD, DMSc & Dinesh Neupane, PhD
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Apr 2021
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISSN
15246175
e-ISSN
17517176
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2544912187
Copyright
© 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.