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Primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Pakistan faces significant challenges including poverty, lack of education, cultural biases, and an inadequate health delivery system.
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Highlights the systemic and socioeconomic barriers to implementing primary cardiovascular prevention strategies in Pakistan.
Pakistan is a developing country and its health delivery system is not integrated, in fact it is upside down, i.e. emphasis is on tertiary care. District and tehsil hospitals and basic health units exist mostly on paper. Here, the data regarding escalating cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is compelling. [1] 2] Present situation has come about because of the inability to manage the epidemiological transformation of the population from rural to urban lifestyles. There is no debate about the imperative need of prevention. The question is: what type of preventive strategy is possible in Pakistan and to what effect? Poverty, lack of education, strong cultural biases, unplanned urbanisation and absence of health services in the community, school or workplace form a broad canvas of problems to overcome.
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Kalim U. Aziz (2020) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular diseases. Primary prevention strategies was evaluated. Primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Pakistan faces significant challenges including poverty, lack of education, cultural biases, and an inadequate health delivery system.
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