Abstract
Expanding the HEARTS hypertension management and CVD prevention programme to provide services to the entire eligible population in the catchment area may face constraints in physician capacity. A task-sharing model involving shifting of select tasks from doctors to nurses and local community health workers would be essential for the eventual scale-up of primary care services to prevent CVD in Bangladesh.
Keywords Medicine · Per capita · Activity-based costing · Population · Cost driver · Disease management · Environmental health · Health care · Emergency medicine · Disease
Cite this paper
Muhammad Jami Husain, Mohammad Sabbir Haider, Renesa Tarannum, Shamim Jubayer, Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Deliana Kostova, Andrew E. Moran, & Sohel Reza Choudhury. (2022). Cost of primary care approaches for hypertension management and risk-based cardiovascular disease prevention in Bangladesh: a HEARTS costing tool application. BMJ Open, 12(6), e061467. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061467
Authors and affiliations
Muhammad Jami Husain
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID 0000-0001-6049-0505Mohammad Sabbir Haider
Directorate General of Health Services
ORCID 0000-0003-0013-0051Renesa Tarannum
National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-6797-5799National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-8595-1993National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0001-6962-7264Deliana Kostova
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID 0000-0003-2414-0166Andrew E. Moran
Vital Strategies
ORCID 0000-0003-3554-0085National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute
ORCID 0000-0002-7498-4634