Hypertension Treatment Rates and Health Care Worker Density.

ABSTRACT: Elevated blood pressure is the leading cause of death worldwide; however, treatment and control rates for hypertension are low. Here, we analyze the relationship between physician and nurse density and hypertension treatment rates worldwide. Data on hypertension treatment rates were collected from the STEPwise approach to Surveillance country reports, individual studies resulting from a PubMed search for articles published between 1990 and 2010, and manual search of the reference lists of extracted studies. Data on health care worker density were obtained from the Global Atlas of the Health Workforce. We controlled for a variety of variables related to population characteristics and access to health care, data obtained from the World Bank, World Development Indicators, United Nations, and

SUBMITTER: Vedanthan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374168 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature