Widening access to cardiovascular healthcare: Community screening among ethnic minorities in inner-city Britain - The Healthy Hearts Project

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Patel, Jeetesh V ^a   Gunarathne, Ashan ^a   Lane, Deidre ^a   Lim, Hoong S ^a   Tracey, Inessa ^a   Panja, Nimai C ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a   Hughes, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a SANDWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; AGE; ASIA; COMMUNITY CARE; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MASS SCREENING; MINORITY GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIA, WESTERN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MINORITY GROUPS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 38849104448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-192     Document Type: Article

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