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BACKGROUND: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor is household wealth, which may enable or limit a household's ability to access health care services and adequately control such a chronic condition. This study aims to describe the scale and patterns of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and contr...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal for Equity in Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 199
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-08
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1475-9276
- Pubs id:
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pubs:666496
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uri:d852dc32-a09c-4dc4-926e-c25d0630ffac
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uuid:d852dc32-a09c-4dc4-926e-c25d0630ffac
- Local pid:
- pubs:666496
- Paper number:
- 1
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Palafox et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Wealth and cardiovascular health: a cross-sectional study of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in high-, middle- and low-income countries
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