Adaptation and Persistence in Healthcare Programs During Stressful Times
Amid external stressors like COVID-19 and political turmoil, healthcare programs in Peru have shown resilience and adaptability in shifting to tele-medicine, continuing alcohol consumption monitoring, and providing patient advice. Monitoring and evaluation remain essential in measuring program effectiveness and coverage.
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Implementation and scale-up is an adaptive process COVID-19 has taught us resilience and flexibility, adapting programmes to external stressors In Peru, asking and advising has shifted from face-to-face contact to tele-medicine
Even with severe external stressors, work can continue During SCALA, there have been major external stressors, including COVID-19 and political turmoil Despite these, and great credit to the providers, it has been possible to continue measuring alcohol consumption and giving advice to patients to drink less
Monitoring and evaluation are key We need to monitor how well we are doing The main indicator is coverage - what proportion of the adult patients that we care for has had their alcohol consumption measured
