Thesis
Examining the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease risk in Kenyan primary care settings
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Background:
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) such as ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular incidents cause up to 12% of the total deaths in all ages for both males and females, and one in four of all hospital admissions in Kenya. Further, risk factors for these diseases have increased by a third in the last ten years (2005-2016). The use of simple and efficient interventions such as CVD risk assessment and scoring tools is largely suboptimal in primary care settings. Curr...
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+ Heneghan, C
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Nunan, D
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-4597-1276
+ Williams, V
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Etyang, A
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Mahtani, K
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- Examiner
+ Rhodes Scholarships
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000697
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- N/A
- Programme:
- The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully funded, full time, postgraduate award which enables talented young people from around the world to study at the University of Oxford.
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2022-10-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Muthee, TB
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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