Descriptive epidemiology and short-term outcomes of heart failure hospitalisation in rural Haiti

GF Kwan, W Jean-Baptiste, P Cleophat, F Leandre… - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
Objective There is increasing attention to cardiovascular diseases in low-income countries.
However, little is known about heart failure (HF) in rural areas, where most of the …

[HTML][HTML] High poverty and hardship financing among patients with noncommunicable diseases in rural Haiti

GF Kwan, LD Yan, BD Isaac, K Bhangdia… - Global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Poverty is a major barrier to healthcare access in low-income countries. The
degree of equitable access for noncommunicable disease (NCD) patients is not known in …

[HTML][HTML] Does distance from a clinic and poverty impact visit adherence for noncommunicable diseases? A retrospective cohort study using electronic medical records …

LD Yan, D Pierre-Louis, BD Isaac, W Jean-Baptiste… - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background Adherence to regular outpatient visits is vital to managing noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs), a growing burden in low and middle-income countries. We characterized …

LOW VISIT ADHERENCE IN A NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE CLINIC IN RURAL HAITI

L Yan, B Isaac, K Bhangdia, W Jean-Baptiste… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Background Adherence to regular outpatient visits is vital to managing noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs), a growing burden in low-income countries. We characterized visit …

Abstract P140: High Poverty Among Patients With Noncommunicable Diseases in Rural Haiti

GF Kwan, B Isaac, L Yan, W Jean-Baptiste, D Belony… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a major and growing cause of death
and disability in low-income countries, and contribute a substantial portion of outpatient …