Assessing Hypertension Management in Peru's Peri-Urban Community in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Hypertension is a global health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Peri-urban areas such as Pampas de San Juan de Miraflores, Peru, face challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated.

Objective: To assess the post-COVID-19 hypertension care cascade and mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels in Pampas de San Juan de Miraflores and to determine the proportion of individuals with hypertension who are diagnosed, treated, and have controlled blood pressure across age groups.

Composition of the Public Health Workforce: Distribution, Training, and Tenure.

Objective: Describe the public health and job experience of the local public health workforce at the agency level and based on the characteristics of the jurisdictions they serve.

Design: Cross-sectional design of U.S.

Racial and Ethnic Representation of the Local Public Health Workforce.

To describe racial and ethnic representativeness of the local health department (LHD) workforce compared with the populations served. In this study, we used a cross-sectional design of the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey, 2019 National Association of County and City Health Officials Profile data, and other sources to estimate the racial and ethnic representativeness of LHD workforce. We calculated representativeness as a binary measure of at least representative of the populations served for each race and ethnicity group.

Service Delivery Redesign for Noncommunicable Disease Management: Assessment of Needs and Solutions Through a Co-Creation Process in Argentina.

Introduction: In Argentina, the implementation of a national strategy to reduce the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has been hampered by challenges at the provincial level. We aimed to design a new model of care for NCDs at the primary care level by conducting a multimodal system assessment and co-design of potential solutions in the province of Mendoza.

Methods: We carried out a mixed-methods study with 7 components: evaluation of patterns of care, patient focus groups, cross-sectional standardized population-based phone survey, an electronic cohort follow-up of patients with type 2 diabetes, in-depth interviews with stakeholders, a knowledge test for health care providers on chronic condition management, and a Delphi consensus to provide recommendations from stakeholders.

Leadership, cohesion, and stress in primary care facilities and retention in chronic care in rural northeast South Africa before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study.

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hypertension are major contributors to morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Effective management of these conditions is critical to population health, yet patient management and retention varies by facility for reasons that are not fully understood. We assessed whether measures of clinic leadership, cohesion, and stress were associated with retention for HIV and hypertension in a cohort of patients in northeast South Africa before and during the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.