Journal article
Understanding the modifiable health systems barriers to hypertension management in Malaysia: a multi-method health systems appraisal approach
Abstract
BackgroundThe growing burden of non-communicable diseases in middle-income countries demands models of care that are appropriate to local contexts and acceptable to patients in order to be effective. We describe a multi-method health system appraisal to inform the design of an intervention that will be used in a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve hypertension control in Malaysia.MethodsA health systems appraisal was undertaken in …
Authors
Risso-Gill I; Balabanova D; Majid F; Ng KK; Yusoff K; Mustapha F; Kuhlbrandt C; Nieuwlaat R; Schwalm J-D; McCready T
Journal
BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 15, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2015
DOI
10.1186/s12913-015-0916-y
ISSN
1472-6963