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Referral outcomes of individuals identified at high risk of cardiovascular disease by community health workers in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mexico, and South Africa

BACKGROUND: We have found that community health workers (CHWs) with appropriate training are able to accurately identify people at high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in the community who would benefit from the introduction of preventative management, in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mexico, and South A...

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Autores principales:	Levitt, Naomi S., Puoane, Thandi, Denman, Catalina A., Abrahams-Gessel, Shafika, Surka, Sam, Mendoza, Carlos, Khanam, Masuma, Alam, Sartaj, Gaziano, Thomas A.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Co-Action Publishing 2015
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25854780 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.26318

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