Black Cosmetologists Promote Diabetes Awareness and Screening Among African American Women

The Diabetes Educator

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 676-685

  Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a   Meyer, Margaret W ^a   ko, Celine Marie ^a   Butcher, Crystal ^a   Lee, Shianti ^a   Neal, Tiffany ^a   Reed, Lynn ^a   Veals, Aaron E ^a   Gilpin, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVALUATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSMETICS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4143099133     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014572170403000419     Document Type: Article

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