Outcomes and costs of implementing a community-based intervention for hypertension in an urban slum in Kenya;Résultats et coûts de la mise en oeuvre d’une intervention communautaire contre l’hypertension dans un bidonville urbain du Kenya;Resultados y costes de la implementación de una intervención basada en la comunidad para la hipertensión en un barrio pobre urbano de Kenya

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 501-509

  Oti, Samuel Oji ^a   van de Vijver, Steven ^b   Gomez, Gabriela B ^b   Agyemang, Charles ^c   Egondi, Thaddaeus ^a   Kyobutungi, Catherine ^a   Stronks, Karien ^c  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HYPERTENSION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING; STUDY DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; URBAN POPULATION;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA];

ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84977178251     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.15.156513     Document Type: Article

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