Integrated chronic care in Africa: Nice idea, but how do we actually do this?
Reflecting upon the steps, potentials and pitfalls of making integrated chronic care models operable in real-world settings.
This webinar, co-hosted by the CGCC Multimorbidity Interest Group and Africa Multimorbidity Alliance, brings together partners with experience in the design, delivery, and evaluation integrated chronic care in Africa. Focusing predominantly on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of integrated chronic care, it seeks to capture and lucidly reflect upon the steps, potentials and pitfalls of making such models operable in real-world settings.
Providing integrated chronic care is an important step towards improving the quality of life and health outcomes of patients living with two-or-more long-term conditions (‘multimorbidity’) in Africa. Developing such models is one thing; but actually putting them into practice in real-world settings, especially given the entrenched legacies of ‘vertical’ single disease programs and resource limitations, is another. There is an increasing wealth of experience from different country contexts in developing, implementing, and evaluating such programmes, yet the finer details and pragmatics (the ‘nuts and bolts’) of integrated chronic care are not well documented in published literature. As more countries are starting to reorient their health systems to accommodate increasing multimorbidity and needs of older populations, it is important to share and learn from accumulated experience and know-how.
This seminar brings together partners from Malawi (IC3 Programme), Uganda (INTE-AFRICA study), Kenya (PIC4C model) and South Africa (Integrated Chronic Disease Management Model) to share learning and best practices to facilitate adaptation and implementation across contexts.
Speakers
Dr Josephine Birungi, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
Dr Brown Khongo, Partners in Health, Malawi
Dr Tony Etyang, Oxford University, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust
Dr Ozayr Mahomed, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chair: Prof Ellen Nolte, LSHTM
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- Please note that this event is online only. A recording of this session will be available after the event on this page.
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