APHRC - African Population&Health Research Center

SCALE UP Study

Steven van de Vijver is a young Dutch Family Practitioner who collaborates on The Scale Up Study, that is linked with the DSS in Nairobi.
The full title for this is "Sustainable Model for Cardiovascular Health by Adjusting Lifestyle and Treatment with Economic Perspective in Settings of Urban Poverty Scale-Up Project".
The project started on 01/08/2011 and will end on 15/07/2014. It is funded by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. 

Its objectives are:

To develop, implement and evaluate effective and low cost community-based interventions for primordial and primary prevention and management of cardiovascular risk factors suitable for scaling up in slum settings in Sub Saharan Africa.

Project leader/PhD students: Steven van de Vijver and Samuel Oti

Such studies, particularly this study on non-communicable diseases, are fundamental to Family Medicine, because they reveal the health care needs, for which Family Medicine hopes to have an adequate answer. Another DSS that was started in Eldoret (Moi University) is linked to the FM traing in Moi.