Health-promoting lifestyle and diabetes knowledge in Hispanic American adults

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 378-385

  Chilton, Linda ^a   Hu, Jie ^b   Wallace, Debra C ^b  

^a Carolina Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes knowledge; Health promoting lifestyle; Hispanic American adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745740069     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822306288059     Document Type: Article

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