Cohort monitoring of persons with diabetes mellitus in a primary healthcare clinic for Palestine refugees in Jordan

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1569-1576

  Khader, Ali ^a   Farajallah, Loai ^a   Shahin, Yousef ^a   Hababeh, Majed ^a   Abu Zayed, Ishtaiwi ^b   Kochi, Arata ^c   Harries, Anthony D ^d,e   Zachariah, Rony ^f   Kapur, Anil ^g   Venter, Wendy ^a   Seita, Akihiro ^a  

^a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East   (Jordan)

^b United Nations Relief and Works Agency   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^g World Diabetes Foundation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

An lisis de cohortes; Cohort reports; Diab te sucr ; Diabetes mellitus; Jordan; Jordania; Jordanie; Palestine refugees; Rapports de cohortes; R fugi s de Palestine; Refugiados Palestinos

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLUCOSE; HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; REFUGEE; STROKE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALESTINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ANÁLISIS DE COHORTES; COHORT REPORTS; DIABÈTE SUCRÉ; DIABETES MELLITUS; JORDAN; JORDANIA; JORDANIE; PALESTINE REFUGEES; RAPPORTS DE COHORTES; RÉFUGIÉS DE PALESTINE; REFUGIADOS PALESTINOS;

ADULT; AGED; ARABS; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; JORDAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

AMMAN; JORDAN;

EID: 84869881741     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03097.x     Document Type: Article

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