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WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS1-01] NCDs ( Wonca Working Party for Women & Family Medicine)
Wed. May 15, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room 4 (2F Room B-2)
Organizer: Tin Myo Han(Myanmar General Practitioners’ Society, Myanmar)
Chair: Zorayda Leopando(Philippine Academy of Family Physicians, Philippine), Tin Myo Han(Myanmar General Practitioners’ Society, Myanmar)
Speaker/Facilitator: Tin Myo Han(Myanmar General Practitioners’ Society, Myanmar), May Thin Zar(Taung-gyi GPs Society, Myanmar)
Non communicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases are global public health problems with increasing trends. Empowering individuals, families, communities and societies for them to be involved in activities for the prevention and care of NCDs is crucial to mitigate burden of NCDs. Improving health literacy is basic requisite for empowering people and developing their personal skills and capacity to make informed decisions about health including NCDs. Thus, in implementing Alma-Ata declaration, empowering individuals and communities is also included as one of driven factors to achieve the success of primary health care. First, empowering individuals and communities and its effects on mitigation of NCDs and three levels of health literacy for better management of NCDs – core health literacy, engaged health literacy and Influential health literacy, will be presented in this workshop,. Then, a brainstorming session will be carried out with workshop’ participants to determine “Role of primary care physicians to improve health literacy of their patients and its effect on empowering in prevention and care of NCDs. The results of the brainstorming will be shared with all workshop participants