Abstract

"I didn't tell them. Well, they never ask". Lay understandings of hypertension and their impact on chronic disease management: Implications for nursing practice in primary care (Gina Higginbottom)
10.1177/1744987108088636
2008 13: 89
Journal of Research in Nursing

their impact on chronic disease management: implications for nursing practice in http://jrn.sagepub.com/content/13/2/89.full.pdf+html
This paper article is part of the author’s important qualitative work on hypertension
in people of African-Caribbean ethnic origin living in England. The paper specifically
examines how 'lay understandings' of hypertension may affect chronic disease man-
agement and the steps that primary care nurses might take to optimise care delivery
to clients. In this respect, the author must be commended for introducing a very im-
portant topic that has been under researched.