Improving cardiovascular health with the patient-centered, integrated primary care HEARTS model in Trinidad and Tobago

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Rohit Doon, Taraleen Malcolm, Yvonne Lewis, Latifah Holder, LaDonna Gulston, Abdul Hamid, Allana Best, Roxanne Mitchell, Pedram Lalla
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2022
• Subjects: cardiovascular disease; primary health care; health systems; patient-centered care; trinidad and tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.169; https://doaj.org/article/823202af05ed4f4cb454e3975bd554c2

This article describes the introduction of the Pan American Health Organization’s HEARTS in the Americas program in Trinidad and Tobago and the successful experiences and challenges encountered in introducing and scaling it up as a strategy for strengthening the health system’s response to cardiovas...