Advancing diabetes self-management in the Mexican American population: A community health worker model in a primary care setting

Diabetes Educator

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2007, Pages

  Thompson, Joan R ^a   Horton, Claire ^a   Flores, Carlos ^a  

^a La Clinica de la Raza   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34347324176     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: 15546063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145721707304077     Document Type: Article

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