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Hypertension Care Coordination and Feasibility of Involving Female Community Health Volunteers in Hypertension Management in Kavre District, Nepal: A Qualitative Study Cover

Hypertension Care Coordination and Feasibility of Involving Female Community Health Volunteers in Hypertension Management in Kavre District, Nepal: A Qualitative Study

Global Heart
Volume 15 (2020): Issue 1
By: Jingru Tan,  Hanzhang Xu,  Qiping Fan,  Olivia Neely,  Rinchen Doma,  Rishika Gundi,  Binjwala Shrestha,  Abha Shrestha,  Shrinkhala Shrestha,  Biraj Karmacharya,  Wanbing Gu,  Truls Østbye and  Lijing L. Yan  
Open Access
|Oct 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.872 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 13, 2020
Accepted on: Sep 27, 2020
Published on: Oct 23, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
hypertension management,
community health workers,
female community health volunteers,
Nepal,
qualitative research

© 2020 Jingru Tan, Hanzhang Xu, Qiping Fan, Olivia Neely, Rinchen Doma, Rishika Gundi, Binjwala Shrestha, Abha Shrestha, Shrinkhala Shrestha, Biraj Karmacharya, Wanbing Gu, Truls Østbye, Lijing L. Yan, published by Ubiquity Press
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