Abstract

Abstracts of oral and poster presentations of the 1<sup>st</sup> South East Asia Regional Group Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association and 24<sup>th</sup> Annual Academic Session of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka 2019

Highlights

  • Out-of-pocket-expenditure (OOPE) is rising and currently, remains at 51% (2016) of the current health expenditure of the country

  • An effectively conducted Root-cause-analysis (RCA) could help to identify determinants of inefficient healthcare performance leading to high OOPE

  • Sri Lanka has a well-established primary health-care system, which screens the vision of school children of grades one, four seven and ten, the burden of refractive errors implies that further provoking into the issue is needed to identify and rectify causative situations

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Summary

Introduction

Out-of-pocket-expenditure (OOPE) is rising and currently, remains at 51% (2016) of the current health expenditure of the country. M-Health (use of mobile study was conducted to assess the perceived self-efficacy technologies for health care) could be a potential strategy for and its associations in self-managing chronic diseases promoting healthy diets and physical activity and thereby among elderly patients attending medical clinic at BH reducing the risk of CVD in Sri Lanka. 24th Annual Academic Sessions of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka 2019 different methods such as mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy Both the disease (breast cancer) and treatment methods reduce overall Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among breast cancer survivors. This study aims to find spatial pattern of prevalence and environmental, house hold correlates of asthma among Indian women aged 15 to 49 based on National Family Health Survey–4 data Prevalence of both lifestyle and intermediate risk factors for NCDs are high in Sri Lanka. Assessing morbidity pattern of Out-Patient Departments (OPD) attendees is important in order to improve quality of services provided at primary care level

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