Knowledge about diabetes and participation in diabetes training courses: The need for improving health care for diabetes patients with low SES

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 240-248

  Mielck, Andreas ^a   Reitmeir, P ^a   Rathmann, W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Health care; Health inequalities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33745977149     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924228     Document Type: Article

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