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Assessing capacity and readiness to manage NCDs in primary care setting: Gaps and opportunities based on adapted WHO PEN tool in Zambia.

Wilbroad MutaleSamuel BosomprahPerfect ShankalalaOliver MweembaRoma ChilengiSharon KapambweCharles ChishimbaMulenga MukanuDaniel ChibutuDouglas Corbett Heimburger
Published in: PloS one (2018)
Our study revealed gaps in primary health care capacity to manage NCDs in Zambia, with almost all health facilities failing to reach the minimum threshold. These results could be generalized to other similar districts in Zambia and the sub-region, where health systems remain focused on infectious rather than non-communicable Disease. These results should attract policy attention and potentially form the basis to review current approach to NCD care at the primary care level in Zambia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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