Socioeconomic differences in diabetes prevalence, awareness, and treatment in rural southwest China

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1070-1076

  Le, Cai ^a   Jun, Dong ^a   Zhankun, Shu ^b   Yichun, Lu ^c   Jie, Tao ^a  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Luo Ping County Hospital   (China)

^c Guan Du Center for Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

Awareness; China; Diabetes; Socioeconomic status; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DIABETES; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH IMPACT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUGAR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HIP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA;

EID: 79961166536     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02805.x     Document Type: Article

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