The role of community volunteers in health interventions: A hypertension screening and follow-up program

C.J. Cooke and A. Meyers

American Journal of Public Health, 1983, vol. 73, issue 2, 193-194

Abstract: Volunteers from a resident health committee in an apartment complex community carried out door-to-door blood pressure screening of residents. Their results were compared with those from a community where a resident health committee conducted central site screenings and with those of a community where nonresident researchers manned a central screening site. Door-to-door screening by community volunteers was significantly more effective than the two central site screening methods which did not differ from each other. Follow-up measures increased the number of hypertensives who reported seeking treatment by 100 per cent.

Date: 1983
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