School of Nursing, 12330The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Facultad de Enfermería, 28021Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
Hisp Health Care Int. 2022 Mar;20(1):66-74. doi: 10.1177/15404153211001578. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
The number of cancer survivors is increasing in Colombia, and health policy changes are necessary to meet their unmet needs and improve their health outcomes. Similar trends have been identified in developed countries, and positive changes have been made.
We conducted a narrative review to provide an overview of Colombia's social structure, health care system, and health care delivery in relation to cancer, with recommendations for improving cancer survivorship in Colombia based on the model of survivorship care in the United States.
We proposed general recommendations for improving cancer survivors' care including (1) recognizing cancer survivorship as a distinct phase of cancer, (2) strengthening methods and metrics for tracking cancer survivorship, (3) assessing and monitoring cancer symptoms and quality of life of cancer survivors, (4) publishing evidence-based guidelines considering the social, economic, and cultural characteristics of Colombian population and cancer survivors' specific needs.
These recommendations could be used to inform and prioritize health policy development in Colombia related to cancer survivorship outcomes.
在哥伦比亚,癌症幸存者的数量正在增加,需要政策变革来满足他们的未满足需求并改善他们的健康结果。在发达国家也出现了类似的趋势,并已经做出了积极的改变。
我们进行了叙述性综述,以提供哥伦比亚的社会结构、医疗保健系统以及与癌症相关的医疗保健提供情况概述,并根据美国的生存者护理模式为改善哥伦比亚的癌症生存者提出了建议。
我们提出了改善癌症生存者护理的一般建议,包括(1)将癌症生存者视为癌症的一个独特阶段,(2)加强癌症生存者追踪的方法和指标,(3)评估和监测癌症症状和癌症生存者的生活质量,(4)出版基于证据的指南,考虑到哥伦比亚人口的社会、经济和文化特征以及癌症生存者的特定需求。
这些建议可用于为哥伦比亚与癌症生存者结果相关的卫生政策制定提供信息并确定优先事项。