TY - JOUR
KW - Continuity of Patient Care
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - Hypertension/diagnosis
KW - Informed Consent
KW - Mass Screening
KW - Public Health
KW - Quality of Health Care
KW - Residence Characteristics
KW - Social Work
AU - R. B. Francoeur
A1 - 
AB - Uncontrolled hypertension is highly prevalent, presents without symptoms, and constitutes a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Several factors impede individuals from adhering to treatment, while others work against physician monitoring and medication adjustment as the condition changes. As family counselors and leaders of self-help and mutual aid groups, social workers are among the best positioned professionals to help individuals, couples, and families improve psychosocial dynamics associated with hypertension, secure support, and overcome barriers to lifestyle changes or medication adherence. An important case is made for training social workers from community social service agencies to engage and guide their clients in accurate self-screenings for hypertension and to refer those with elevated blood pressure for follow-up care.
BT - Social work in health care
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 5
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/00981380903405271
IS - 5
JF - Social work in health care
N2 - Uncontrolled hypertension is highly prevalent, presents without symptoms, and constitutes a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Several factors impede individuals from adhering to treatment, while others work against physician monitoring and medication adjustment as the condition changes. As family counselors and leaders of self-help and mutual aid groups, social workers are among the best positioned professionals to help individuals, couples, and families improve psychosocial dynamics associated with hypertension, secure support, and overcome barriers to lifestyle changes or medication adherence. An important case is made for training social workers from community social service agencies to engage and guide their clients in accurate self-screenings for hypertension and to refer those with elevated blood pressure for follow-up care.
PP - England
PY - 2010
SN - 1541-034X; 0098-1389
SP - 424
EP - 443
EP - 
T1 - Agency social workers could monitor hypertension in the community
T2 - Social work in health care
TI - Agency social workers could monitor hypertension in the community
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 20521206
U3 - 10.1080/00981380903405271
VL - 49
VO - 1541-034X; 0098-1389
Y1 - 2010
ER -