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Journal Article
Mapping the Common Barriers to Optimal COPD Care in High and Middle-Income Countries: Qualitative Perspectives from Clinicians
2024
Overview
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) poses a significant global health burden despite being largely preventable and treatable. Despite the availability of guidelines, COPD care remains suboptimal in many settings, including high-income countries (HICs) and upper-middle-income countries (UMICs), with varied approaches to diagnosis and management. This study aimed to identify common and unique barriers to COPD care across six countries (Australia, Spain, Taiwan, Argentina, Mexico, and Russia) to inform global policy initiatives for improved care.
COPD care pathways were mapped for each country and supplemented with epidemiological, health-economic, and clinical data from a targeted literature review. Semi-structured interviews with 17 respiratory care clinicians were used to further validate the pathways and identify key barriers. Thematic content analysis was used to generate the themes.
Six themes were common in most HICs and UMICs: \"Challenges in COPD diagnosis\", \"Strengthening the role of primary care\", \"Fragmented healthcare systems and coordination challenges\", \"Inadequate management of COPD exacerbations\", \"Limited access to specialized care\" and, \"Impact of underfinanced and overloaded healthcare systems\". One theme, \"Insurance coverage and reimbursement challenges\", was more relevant for UMICs. HICs and UMICs differ in patient and healthcare provider awareness, primary care involvement, spirometry access, and availability of specialized care. Both face issues with healthcare fragmentation, guideline adherence, and COPD exacerbation management. In addition, UMICs also grapple with resource limitations and healthcare infrastructure challenges.
Many challenges to COPD care are the same in both HICs and UMICs, underscoring the pervasive nature of these issues. While country-specific issues require customized solutions, there are untapped possibilities for implementing global respiratory strategies that support countries to manage COPD effectively. In addition to healthcare system-level initiatives, there is a crucial need for political prioritization of COPD to allocate the essential resources it requires.
Publisher
Dove Medical Press Limited,Dove Medical Press Ltd,Dove,Dove Medical Press
Subject
/ Attitude of Health Personnel
/ barriers
/ Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
/ copd
/ Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
/ Developing Countries - economics
/ Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
/ Health Services Accessibility
/ Humans
/ Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards
/ Primary Health Care - standards
/ Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis
/ Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology
