Table 5.

Cardiovascular care quality parameters.

Primary preventive care	Disease management and secondary care
•Indexes of social/human development •Healthcare service delivery •Low awareness of risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol •Appropriate risk factor control •Adherence to treatments for risk factor control •Adherence to healthy lifestyles	•Gaps in acute CAD management •Low use of thrombolysis and invasive revascularization •Poor quality secondary prevention care •Low use of evidence based care •Adherence to drug therapy •Use of non-evidence based therapies