Department of Nursing and Community Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK.
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Chester, Chester CH1 1SL, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 25;19(1):211. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010211.
The burden of ischemic heart disease in Nigeria calls for an evidence-based, innovative, and interdisciplinary approach towards decreasing health inequalities resulting from individual lifestyle and poor socioeconomic status in order to uphold the holistic health of individuals to achieve global sustainability and health equity. The poor diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease in Nigeria contributes to the inadequate knowledge of its prognosis among individuals, which often results in a decreased ability to seek help and self-care. Hence, current policies aimed at altering lifestyle behaviour to minimize exposure to cardiovascular risk factors may be less suitable for Nigeria's diverse culture. Mitigating the burden of ischemic heart disease through the equitable access to health services and respect for the autonomy and beliefs of individuals in view of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) requires comprehensive measures to accommodate, as much as possible, every individual, notwithstanding their values and socioeconomic status.
尼日利亚缺血性心脏病负担需要采取基于证据、创新和跨学科的方法，以减少因个人生活方式和贫困社会经济地位导致的健康不平等，从而维护个人的整体健康，实现全球可持续性和健康公平。尼日利亚对缺血性心脏病的诊断和管理不足，导致人们对其预后的认识不足，这往往导致人们寻求帮助和自我护理的能力下降。因此，目前旨在改变生活方式行为以尽量减少心血管危险因素暴露的政策可能不太适合尼日利亚的多元文化。通过公平获得卫生服务和尊重个人的自主权和信仰来减轻缺血性心脏病负担，以实现全民健康覆盖（UHC），需要采取全面措施，尽可能照顾到每一个人，无论其价值观和社会经济地位如何。
