Adult Overweight and Obesity Preventive and Curative Programme

Under the Adult Overweight and Obesity Preventive and Curative Programme (Programa de Prevención y Regresión del Sobrepeso y Obesidad (PPRESyO)), the follow-up of patients used to be done empirically by means of a flat file, which resulted in lack of monitoring. For this reason, it was necessary to develop a user-friendly and intuitive technological platform to improve the service. This platform consists of tools for nutritional diagnosis, a calculator of protein and carbohydrate distribution, and the monitoring of the patient's diet. This tool operates in tandem with the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute(Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE)) database of beneficiaries and it is implemented in 180 first level medical units and 34 second level medical units.

This practice has reduced the time of consultation from 30 to 10 minutes and has contributed to the standardization of clinical nutrition care nationwide. Moreover, it has been reproduced in first, second and third level consultation processes and has allowed to follow up the evolution of patients from their first consultation.

In the first month of operation, it had the following records:

Number of records

Process

6,771

Record sheets

6,261

Medical nutrition records

289

Subsequent consultations

 

Award Region
Award Year
2015
Country
Region
Main country
Main region