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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
(BioMed Central, 2016)
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 ...
Does greater individual social capital improve the management of hypertension? Cross-national analysis of 61 229 individuals in 21 countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
Introduction Social capital, characterised by trust,
reciprocity and cooperation, is positively associated with
a number of health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that
among hypertensive individuals, those with greater ...