Planning for the strategic recruitment of barbershops for blood pressure screening and referral in the Mississippi Delta region

Prev Chronic Dis. 2014 Jul 24:11:E126. doi: 10.5888/pcd11.140179.

Authors

Vincent L Mendy¹, Briana Perryman², Jackie Hawkins², Cassandra Dove²

Affiliations

¹ Mississippi Delta Health Collaborative, Mississippi State Department of Health, 522 West Park Ave, Suite P, Greenwood, MS 38930. E-mail: vincent.mendy@msdh.ms.gov.
² Mississippi Delta Health Collaborative, Mississippi State Department of Health, Greenwood, Mississippi.

No abstract available

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Barbering*
Censuses
Community Health Planning*
Community Health Workers
Ethnicity / psychology
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data
Follow-Up Studies
Geographic Information Systems
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Promotion / methods*
Health Status Disparities
Heart Diseases / diagnosis
Heart Diseases / epidemiology
Heart Diseases / mortality
Humans
Hypertension / diagnosis*
Hypertension / epidemiology
Male
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data*
Mississippi / epidemiology
Prehypertension / diagnosis
Prehypertension / epidemiology
Referral and Consultation / statistics & numerical data*
Risk Assessment

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