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# Recommended reading

## Books

[Mountains Beyond Mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_Beyond_Mountains) about Paul Farmer (Partners in Health).

[Epic Measures](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/epic-measures-jeremy-n-smith?variant=32208098328610) about how data should inform health policy.

[Factfulness](https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/), a very readable and helpful way of thinking about the world in rational terms.

## Resolve to Save Lives

Article on the [Hypertension-control program](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6MrA7zuKZta_zIeOIftzPwh8Ht9JPma/view?usp=sharing)

[Approach to treating hypertension](https://resolvetosavelives.org/cardiovascular-health/hypertension)

[WHO-HEARTS-technical package](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_HLcMNRCqBvvlSajkFCq7zLq6byx7S3/view?usp=sharing), a detailed manual that forms the basis for Resolve's hypertension program

[Hypertension treatment card](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FN8Vullc5wJJXnh5bIUSyYSKmaQpeudN/view?usp=sharing) for areas that are using the paper system

[Patient ID card (Hindi version)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oKHTYTZT4zU2SlJ_xTA4de3XSFwqjsgK/view?usp=sharing) issued to patients in areas that are using the paper system