Hypertension Health Promotion via Text Messaging at a Community Health Center in South Africa: A Mixed Methods Study.

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Published in JMIR Mhealth Uhealth on March 10, 2016

Authors

Damian Hacking1, Hanne J Haricharan, Kirsty Brittain, Yan Kwan Lau2, Tali Cassidy, Marion Heap

Author Affiliations

1: Health and Human Rights Programme, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. damianuct@gmail.com.
2: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.

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