Open AccessTargeting Hypertension: Working with Rural Barbershops to Identify Hypertension and Encourage Treatment
Author(s) -
Victor Sutton,
Lisle Hites,
Juanita Graham,
Masoumeh Karimi,
Cassandra Dove,
Tameka Walls,
Felisa Wilson-Simpson,
Arteya McGuire,
Lei Zhang,
Thomas Dobbs
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1548-6869
pISSN - 1049-2089
DOI - 10.1353/hpu.2021.0023
Subject(s) - medicine
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), accounting for one in every four U.S. deaths, has had a devastating impact on Mississippi's African American population. Seeking innovative mitigation models, this study assesses CVD prevalence and reach via barbershops to rural Mississippi African Americans.
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