Culture brokerage strategies in diabetes education: Populations at risk across the lifespan: Case reports

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 461-470

  Alexander, Gina K ^a,b   Uz, Sharon W ^a   Hinton, Ivora ^a   Williams, Ishan ^a   Jones, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Diabetes mellitus; Intervention; Racial and ethnic disparities; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGOTIATING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VIRGINIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50149115222     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2008.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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