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...

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Main Authors: Assistant Professor. Thomas A Gaziano, MD (Author), Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, SM (Author), Catalina A Denman, PhD (Author), Carlos Mendoza Montano, PhD (Author), Masuma Khanam, MD (Author), Thandi Puoane, DrPH (Author), Naomi S Levitt, MD (Author)
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Published: Elsevier, 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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