The National Ministry of Health collaborated with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to create a mobile application that provides professionals with access to clinical practice guidelines and other content on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs).
The National Directorate for the Comprehensive Approach to Noncommunicable Diseases was the agency of the Ministry of Health in charge of developing the Salud-NCD app, a tool that promotes easy access to clinical practice guidelines and other content for the prevention and control of diseases. INT.
“This app allows us to continue expanding the modalities of access for health teams, quickly, to knowledge that is constantly updated. We have to find in technology an opportunity to improve prevention and care at its first level”, explained the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.
The Salud-ENT app allows health teams to have dynamic and simple access to content, recommendations and national clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and control of NCDs, promoting the use of digital technologies, as explained the Ministry of Health.
The app is available for Android and iOS, and its contents include information on hypertension, diabetes, kidney and lung disease, asthma and obesity, and includes guidelines on healthy eating, physical activity, smoking control and excessive alcohol consumption , and road safety.
The app is organized into six accesses: Epidemiology, which shows graphics and statistics on pathologies; evaluation, which indicates recommendations for diseases; driving; tracing; goals; and medication tables.
The development of the app is part of the three main initiatives that have been promoted this year focused on the prevention and control of NCDs: the National Strategy for Healthy Environments (ENES), the new health warnings that will appear on cigarette packages and the Law Promotion of Healthy Eating.
The Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado, explained the following, in relation to the importance of chronic disease prevention strategies: “The challenge is to recover coverage and patient searches. Many strategies have been implemented in this period of the pandemic, such as telemedicine or the delivery of medicines to avoid the circulation of patients, but we know that we have a lot to recover.”
