Table 4.

Characteristics of infrastructure observed at health posts in five departments in Guatemala prior to implementing the hypertension control study

	Average across 5 departments	Zacapa	Chiquimula	Sololá	Huehuetenango	Baja Verapaz
Population served
Population served by health district (mean)	32,981	27,040	32,310	31,004	40,620	33,931
Population served by health post (mean)	3239	2613	2451	3764	4675	2694
Population > 40 years (mean/health post)	540	418	583	612	529	560
Average proportion of patients > 40 years/population (%)	17	16	24	16	11	21
ServiceDelivery
Basic infrastructure at the health post level	(n = 97)	(n = 8)	(n = 26)	(n = 26)	(n = 41)	(n = 23)
Closed building with walls (%)	95	100	85	100	100	100
Space to store patient records (%)	97	100	85	100	98	91
Pharmacy (%)	97	100	85	100	98	100
Additional Infrastructure
Clinic (%)	99	100	96	100	100	100
Patient record file cabinet (%)	87	100	81	69	90	96
Space to put a patient file cabinet (%)	91	100	85	96	85	91
Space to have hypertension club meetings (%)	75	63	62	100	85	65
Access to the health post (transport options from the municipal seat to the health post)
Only by walking (%)	6	0	0	0	29	0
Only in a 4x4 vehicle (%)	10	0	27	8	5	9
Only by boat (%)	1	0	0	4	0	0
Any type of vehicle (%)	84	100	73	89	66	91
Mean time (minutes)	33	32	26	35	37	37
Human resources
# auxiliary nurses/health post (mean)	2	1.38	2.27	2.40	2.22	1.70
Information systems
Health posts that have a list of people with hypertension (%)	30	25	15	12	34	65
Medications andMedicalSupplies
Medication type (available at the health post: yes/no)
Hydrochlorothiazide (%)	1	0	4	0	0	0
Enalapril (%)	77	100	15	89	88	91
Losartan (%)	11	0	0	0	0	57
Medical supplies (available at the health post: yes/no)
Blood pressure cuff (%)	85	50	96	96	90	91
Stethoscope (%)	93	100	89	96	93	96
Adult weight scale (%)	81	75	73	81	90	87
Adult height rod (%)	80	88	77	81	71	83