Abstract:The objetive of the research is to describe the living experience of the health - illness process in hypertensive patients with normal leves of blood pressure, adscribed to a control program for hypertension offered by the local hsopital in Valdivia (Chile) and considers patients' cultural contest.The research method used is the ethnographic survey of Spardley (1979-1980), which allows description and interpretation of the hypertensive patients who reached normal levels of blood pressure in their cultural cont… Show more
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