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Hypertension control through physician and community health worker home visits in the bateys of the Dominican Republic

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Title Hypertension control through physician and community health worker home visits in the bateys of the Dominican Republic
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SB1JLL
 
Creator Eblovi, Darren
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This data was collected retrospectively from the electronic medical record of the non-profit organization One World Surgery to evaluate the initial effectiveness of an intervention targeted at severely hypertensive patients identified during charitable field clinics held in the bateys (sugar workers towns) in the eastern Dominican Republic. The data compares systolic and diastolic blood pressure at the beginning and end of the 120-day evaluation period, and describes the following about each patient: age, sex, highest level of education completed, access to local healthcare, awareness of diagnosis of hypertension, and reasons for delayed care seeking,
 
Subject Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Global health, hypertension, non-communicable chronic disease
 
Contributor Eblovi, Darren