Inequality in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in Iran: the analysis of national households' data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing an equitable Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is key for progressing towards the sustainable development goals in the health systems. To help policymakers make hypertension services more equitable with existing (limited) resources in Iran, we examined the inequality of the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control (PATC) of hypertension as the four indicators of hypertension UHC in Iran.  METHODS: This research was a cross-sectional study of inequality of PATC of hypertension using a representative sample of Iranians aged ≥ 25 years from the Iran 2016 STEP wise approach to Surveillance study (STEPS). Outcome variables consisted of PATC of hypertension. Covariates were demographic (age, sex, and marital status) and living standard (area of residence, wealth s

SUBMITTER: Mahdavi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9753315 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature