Strategies for implementing a promotores-led diabetes self-management program into a clinic structure

Diabetes Educator

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 285-298

  Sixta, Constance S ^a,b   Ostwald, Sharon ^b  

^a Sixta Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MANPOWER; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41549118022     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: 15546063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145721708314486     Document Type: Article

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