A Mixed Methods Multicenter Study on the Capabilities, Barriers, and Opportunities for Diabetes Screening and Management in the Public Health System of Southern Ethiopia.
Teshome Tesfaye HabeboEbrahim JaafaripooyanAli Mohammad MosadeghradAbbas Rahimi ForoushaniShita Yohannes GebrielGetachew Ossabo BaborePublished in: Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy (2022)
Despite favorable capabilities available, diabetes management in southern Ethiopia has been struggling with solvable structural defects, poor service delivery and inaccessibility, and patients' poor lifestyle modification. Therefore, public health system restructuring, optimum financing, computerization of medical records documentation, and health system and patient capacity building are strongly recommended interventions to tackle the problem at the grass-root level.