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An NGO-Implemented Community–Clinic Health Worker Approach to Providing Long-Term Care for Hypertension in a Remote Region of Southern India

Sujatha Sankaran, Prema S Ravi, Yichen Ethel Wu, Sharan Shanabogue, Sangeetha Ashok, Kaylan Agnew, Margaret C Fang, Raman A Khanna, Madhavi Dandu and James D Harrison
Global Health: Science and Practice December 2017, 5(4):668-677; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00192
Sujatha Sankaran
aUniversity of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Prema S Ravi
bTribal Health Initiative, Sittilingi, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Yichen Ethel Wu
aUniversity of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Sharan Shanabogue
cSt. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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Sangeetha Ashok
bTribal Health Initiative, Sittilingi, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Kaylan Agnew
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Margaret C Fang
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Raman A Khanna
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Madhavi Dandu
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vol. 5 no. 4 668-677
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00192
PubMed 
29284700

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: May 14, 2017
  • Accepted: October 24, 2017
  • Published online December 28, 2017.

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© Sankaran et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00192

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  1. Sujatha Sankarana⇑,
  2. Prema S Ravib,
  3. Yichen Ethel Wua,
  4. Sharan Shanaboguec,
  5. Sangeetha Ashokb,
  6. Kaylan Agnewa,
  7. Margaret C Fanga,
  8. Raman A Khannaa,
  9. Madhavi Dandua,
  10. James D Harrisona
  1. aUniversity of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  2. bTribal Health Initiative, Sittilingi, Tamil Nadu, India.
  3. cSt. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
  1. Correspondence to Sujatha Sankaran (sujatha.sankaran{at}ucsf.edu).
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