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Hypertension education and adherence in South Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis of community health workers

BACKGROUND: To determine whether training community health workers (CHWs) about hypertension in order to improve adherence to medications is a cost-effective intervention among community members in South Africa. METHODS: We used an established Markov model with age-varying probabilities of cardiovas...

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Autores principales:	Gaziano, Thomas A, Bertram, Melanie, Tollman, Stephen M, Hofman, Karen J
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-240

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