Diabetes and healthy eyes toolkit: A community health worker program to prevent vision loss and blindness among people with diabetes

Family and Community Health

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-110

  Ammary Risch, Neyal J ^a   Aguilar, Marcela ^b   Goodman, Laura Saunders ^b   Quiroz, Leslie ^b  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

blindness prevention; diabetes; diabetic eye disease; Hispanics Latinos; promotores; vision loss

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ETHNOLOGY; EYE DISEASE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGE FACTORS; BLINDNESS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE DISEASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS;

EID: 84858215863     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e3182464fc0     Document Type: Article

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