Reducing Disparities in Hypertension Control: A Community-Based Hypertension Control Project (CHIP) for an Ethnically Diverse Population

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-275

  Morisky, Donald E ^a   Lees, Nancy B ^b   Sharif, Behjat A ^c   Liu, Kenn Y ^a   Ward, Harry J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84992805621     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152483990200300221     Document Type: Article

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