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Adapting Africa’s Health Systems to Manage Non-Communicable D iseases in Older P ersons. Convenor Robert Cumming, University of Sydney, Australia Discussant John Beard, WHO Geneva Presenters Thomas Clausen, University of Oslo, Norway Melvyn Freeman, Department of Health, South Africa - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Adapting Africa’s Health Systems to Manage Non-Communicable Diseases in Older Persons
ConvenorRobert Cumming, University of Sydney, Australia
DiscussantJohn Beard, WHO Geneva
PresentersThomas Clausen, University of Oslo, NorwayMelvyn Freeman, Department of Health, South AfricaJoseph Mugisha, MRC Entebbe, UgandaOusmane Faye, University CA Diop Dakar, Senegal
• Adapt health service delivery• Train health workers
– Knowledge and skills– Change attitudes (“ageism”)
• Health information systems• Medical products
– Medications and appliances• Financing
– Social pensions– Free health care
• Leadership
Attitudes of Health Workers
“Why are you wasting your grandchildren’s drugs? Better I give you paracetum and let you go back home.”
(Reported to have been said to an older person by a nursing assistant at a health centre in Uganda.)
