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. 2021 Mar 18;23(4):755–765. doi: 10.1111/jch.14157

TABLE 1.

Number of primary health care centers implementing the HEARTS technical package and program coverage a by countries, 2020

Cohort Country (Implementation starting year) Numbers of HEARTS Implementing Primary Health Care Centers Total population in catchment area Adult population in the catchment area Number of persons with hypertension in the registry Coverage rate baseline Coverage rate by March 2020
At baseline At last evaluation
Cohort 1 Barbados 2 4 94 300
2015
Colombia 2 13 499 326 261 385 45 185 35% 58%
2017
Chile 2 79 1 850 970 1 446 624 185 759 48% 46%
2017
Cuba 1 20 565 499 401 056 65 832 52% 69%
2017
Cohort 2 Trinidad & Tobago 5 14 381 041 238 051 12 527 31% 33%
2018
Ecuador 10 30 662 448 412 265 7719 5% 9%
2018
Argentina 5 13 132 106 77 440 5602 22% 21%
2018
Panamá 7 37 570 994 630 195 52 872 21% 38%
2018
Cohort 3 Saint Lucia 6 6 33 423 23 819 1406 19% 21%
2019
Peru 34 34 720 597 486 058 7655 5% 8%
2019
Dominican Republic 26 18 70 296 41 169 5292 32% 43%
2019
Mexico 20 20 420 624 185 849 3606 10% 8%
2019
Totals 120 288 5 907 324 4 298 211 393 455

Source: Ministries of Health of corresponding countries.

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Coverage: Percent of persons with hypertension in the registry and in pharmacological treatment based on the best estimate of prevalence for the catchment area.