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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...
Autores principales: | Gaziano, Thomas A, Abrahams-Gessel, Shafika, Denman, Catalina A, Montano, Carlos Mendoza, Khanam, Masuma, Puoane, Thandi, Levitt, Naomi S |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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