Comprehensive reduction of hypertension risk factors in Vietnam: barriers and solutions
Principal investigator
Dr Nguyen Ngoc-Quang, MD
Dr Pham Thai-Son, MD
Dr Hoang Van-Minh, MD, PhD, PH
Intervention type
Community intervention
Targeted population
Individual households in villages
Target factors
| Risk factors | Diseases | |
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Purpose/Goals
To assess the knowledge of hypertension, associated risk factors and barriers to reducing the burden of risk, and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of interventions to diminish the burden of risk. (To overcome the failure of conventional intervention methods.)