HEARTS virtual courses are intended for primary care physicians, nurses, and others health workers, such as nutritionists, social workers, psychologists and other members of primary care team and health care managers.
Additionally, faculty at health sciences programs, including medicine, nursing, public health, are encouraged to make the courses available to their students.
HEARTS in the Americas: Continuous Quality Improvement for Primary Health Care Teams
Strengthen the competencies of primary care teams to systematically implement the HEARTS program in the Americas, applying its methodology of continuous quality improvement and integrating clinical and management tools, with the purpose of closing gaps in the care and control of hypertension and cardiovascular risk, and contributing to the reduction of premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases in line with the goal established for 2030.
Supporting Primary Healthcare Teams to Use Blood Pressure Medications Effectively
This virtual course aims to support all clinicians in using blood pressure medications properly, highlighting the newest WHO recommendations on the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults and the possible side effects of the main group of antihypertensive drugs, including thiazide diuretics and thiazide-like diuretics, Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers (CCB).
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring. Promoting Patient Self-Measurement
Home blood pressure monitoring is a proven intervention to enhance the accuracy and reproducibility of blood pressure measurement, and the development and implementation of a BP measurement training course can empower patients to self-control their BP and ultimately reduce patient-related clinical inertia and improve BP control.
Virtual Course: Hypertension Control Drivers at Primary Health Care Centers
The drivers of hypertension control are solidly embedded within a team-based approach and take advantage of the progress of this Region in implementing the Chronic Care Model. HEARTS in the Americas is focusing on substantially enhancing the team-based care component. This enhancement includes the design of innovative, simple, and functional workflow pathways, led by physicians, nurses or non-physician health workers (NPHW), to increase control of hypertension in PHC centers.
Virtual Course on accurate automated blood pressure measurement (2020)
Improve timely diagnosis of hypertension and the quality of treatment in essential hypertensive patients to prevent cardiovascular complications.