Culture Counts: Why Current Treatment Models Fail Hispanic Women With Type 2 Diabetes

The Diabetes Educator

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-225

  Oomen, Jody S ^a   Owen, Lynda J ^a   Suggs, L Suzanne ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033096570     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014572179902500207     Document Type: Article

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