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Abstract #116208

Alberto Barcelo, Dr, Unit of Noncommunicable Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd St., N.W., Washington, DC 20037, (202) 974-3589, barceloa@paho.org, Raphael Bengoa, PhD, Health System Policies and Operations, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 27, Switzerland, and Ronald D. Deprez, PhD, MPH, Public Health Research Institute, 120 Exchange Street, Portland, ME 04101.

This session will describe the World Health Organization's Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Model(ICCC), its application and current tools and processes used to plan and conduct community, practice and patient chronic care improvements in different settings and countries. We will review the history of the ICCC Model framework and building blocks; recent efforts to apply the ICCC Model in different settings and countries; the status of rapid assessment and planning tools being developed to use the model successfully and one or more examples and achievements, in particular the Case of Mexico: the Veracruz Initiative for Diabetes Awareness (VIDA) Project. This session is intended as the opening of a series of sessions on chronic care planning and implementation being developed by the American Health Planning Association.

Learning Objectives: Participants will learn

• History of the ICCC Model and role of WHO in promotyting its use
• Application of the ICCC Model in different settings and countries
• Early development and testing of Rapid Assessment and Planning Tools for Chronic Care
• Early Examples and Achievements—the Case of Mexicothe
  the Veracruz Initiative for Diabetes Awareness (VIDA) Project

  Keywords: International, Chronic Diseases

  Presenting author's disclosure statement:
  

  I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

  Recorded presentation

  Community Based Chronic Care Services: A Planning and Implementation Model for Evidence Based Improvements at Community and Practice Settings

  The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA