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ReviewLancet regional health. Americas2026

A HEARTS-based integrated model for noncommunicable disease control in primary health care in Peru.

Percy Herrera-Añazco, Carlos Diaz-Arocutipa, Pedro Kikushima- Alcántara, Vicente Benites-Zapata

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Review in Lancet regional health. Americas, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Percy Herrera-AñazcoMinisterio de Salud, Lima, Peru.
Carlos Diaz-ArocutipaMinisterio de Salud, Lima, Peru.
Pedro Kikushima- AlcántaraMinisterio de Salud, Lima, Peru.
Vicente Benites-ZapataMinisterio de Salud, Lima, Peru.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peru has developed and initiated the scale-up of a HEARTS-based, integrated, person-centered primary health care system to support people living with hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease. The model combines standardized clinical pathways with validated drivers, as well as maturity and performance indexes to promote evidence-based practice and continuous quality improvement across diverse primary care settings. National implementation started in 2024 through a structured capacity-building strategy and the deployment of regional facilitators to support supervision, data quality, and clinical mentoring. Early evaluation indicates progress in clinical standardization and performance monitoring, alongside persistent system-level challenges, including limited clinical training, shortages of essential medicines and diagnostics, and the absence of a unified digital registry. Despite these constraints, Peru's experience shows that integrated, protocol-driven care for noncommunicable diseases can be implemented and scaled in resource-constrained health systems, offering a pragmatic framework for other low- and middle-income countries seeking to address multimorbidity.

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ChronicDiabetes mellitusHealthcare modelsHypertensionPrimary health careRenal insufficiency

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PMID41815384
PMCPMC12972956

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