An assessment of community health workers’ ability to screen for cardiovascular disease risk with a simple, non-invasive risk assessment instrument in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mexico, and South Africa: an observational study

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease contributes substantially to the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in low-income and middle-income countries, which also often have substantial health personnel shortages. In this observational study we investigated whether community health workers could do com...

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Autores principales: Gaziano, Thomas A, Abrahams-Gessel, Shafika, Denman, Catalina A, Montano, Carlos Mendoza, Khanam, Masuma, Puoane, Thandi, Levitt, Naomi S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26187361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00143-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26187361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00143-6

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