Philosophical Perspectives on Community Based Non- Communicable Disease Services and the Quality of Life of People Living with HIV in Uganda
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Date
2020
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Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health
Abstract
The review paper traces and expounds the
philosophical thinking on the history of the
community based Non Communicable Disease(NCD)
Services as a measure to improve the Quality of Life
(QoL) of people with NCDs living with HIV. It
explores how the historical trends, the contributions
and the key contributors to the events for the
advancement of the community based NCD services
as key intervention for the improvement of QoL for
people living with HIV. The historical and
philosophical aspects of the paper guides the readers
and writers on NCDs and HIV to gain a deep
understanding of the trends of community NCD
services and the quality of life of people with NCDs
living with HIV and AIDS. It explored how people
with HIV and on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)
become susceptible to Hypertension(HT) and
Diabetes Mellitus(DM). In absence of the community
based NCD services, the physical health,
environmental wellbeing and social relationship QoL
domains will remain poor for all the patients receiving
HIV services in communities. Consequently, the coburden
of NCDs and HIV will increase in case the prevention strategies are not implemented, the
susceptibility to NCDs among the patients will
increase and compromise their quality of life. The
philosophical and theoretical aspects of the paper
guides institutions on the development and
implementation of the community based NCD
services to mitigate on the effects of NCDs and
improve the QoL among HIV patients on ART
receiving services in communities. The philosophical
and theoretical aspects of the paper guides policy
development and evaluates implementation strategies
to mitigate the NCD effects among people living with
HIV. Good health and good QoL are fundamental
human rights that have existed since the birth of
medicine by the early philosophers that was supported
by the modern understanding of the concept of health
as noted by the constitution of the World Health
Organization (WHO).
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Keywords
Community, Non Communicable Diseases, Services, Quality of Life, HIV, People Living with HIV, Uganda, Theories, Philosophies
Citation
Christopher Ddamulira, Norman Nsereko, Edith Akankwasa, Miph Musoke, Frank Pio Kiyingi. Philosophical Perspectives on Community Based Non-Communicable Disease Services and the Quality of Life of People Living with HIV in Uganda. Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health 4 (2020): 409-430. DOI: 10.26502/jesph.96120110