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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4116.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 12:50 PM

Abstract #116208

Innovative Care for Chronic Condition (ICCC): A Global Approach to Improving Chronic Care Services

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