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Evaluation of a community-based hypertension improvement program (ComHIP) in Ghana: data from a baseline survey

BACKGROUND: Ghana faces an increasing burden of non-communicable disease with rates of hypertension estimated as high as 36% in adults. Despite these high rates, hypertension control remains very poor in Ghana (4%). The current project aims to implement and evaluate a community-based programme to ra...

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Autores principales: Lamptey, Peter, Laar, Amos, Adler, Alma J., Dirks, Rebecca, Caldwell, Aya, Prieto-Merino, David, Aerts, Ann, Pearce, Neil, Perel, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28454523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4260-5