Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas

Over 50% of adults in Chile have a high cardiovascular risk. Thus, non communicable chronic diseases may surpass the capacity of the health systems. Therefore the prevention and treatment of their risk factors is urgent. Unfortunately, the low patient's compliance with prescribed treatment, red...

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Autor principal: Téllez T,Alvaro
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2004
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720040012000012006-03-21Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicasTéllez T,Alvaro Heart diseases Patient compliance Prevention and control Preventive measures Over 50% of adults in Chile have a high cardiovascular risk. Thus, non communicable chronic diseases may surpass the capacity of the health systems. Therefore the prevention and treatment of their risk factors is urgent. Unfortunately, the low patient's compliance with prescribed treatment, reduces their efficacy. The best interventions to improve compliance with chronic treatment programs are: to simplify daily doses of medications and to do complex behavioral interventions. Risk factor prevention is a highly recommended action that has obtained promising results in Chile with the program «Mírame». To modify health behavior is also necessary to give people more power in their own care and to increase behavioral and social science contents into medical curricula (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1453-5)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.132 n.12 20042004-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872004001200001es10.4067/S0034-98872004001200001
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Heart diseases
Patient compliance
Prevention and control
Preventive measures
spellingShingle Heart diseases
Patient compliance
Prevention and control
Preventive measures
Téllez T,Alvaro
Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
description Over 50% of adults in Chile have a high cardiovascular risk. Thus, non communicable chronic diseases may surpass the capacity of the health systems. Therefore the prevention and treatment of their risk factors is urgent. Unfortunately, the low patient's compliance with prescribed treatment, reduces their efficacy. The best interventions to improve compliance with chronic treatment programs are: to simplify daily doses of medications and to do complex behavioral interventions. Risk factor prevention is a highly recommended action that has obtained promising results in Chile with the program «Mírame». To modify health behavior is also necessary to give people more power in their own care and to increase behavioral and social science contents into medical curricula (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1453-5)
author Téllez T,Alvaro
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title Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
title_short Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
title_full Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
title_fullStr Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
title_full_unstemmed Prevención y adherencia: Dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
title_sort prevención y adherencia: dos claves para el enfrentamiento de las enfermedades crónicas
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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