Benjamin Palafox, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BACKGROUND: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor is household wealth, which may enable or limit a household's ability to...
Adrianna Murphy, Benjamin Palafox, Owen O’Donnell, David Stückler et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little evidence on the use of secondary prevention medicines for cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic groups in countries at different levels of economic development. METHODS: We assessed use of antiplatelet, cholesterol, and blood-pressure-lowering drugs in 8492 individuals ...
Benjamin Palafox, Yevgeniy Goryakin, David Stückler, Marc Suhrcke et al.
INTRODUCTION: Social capital, characterised by trust, reciprocity and cooperation, is positively associated with a number of health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that among hypertensive individuals, those with greater social capital are more likely to have their hypertension detected, treated and...