Community Health Worker Interventions for Latinos With Type 2 Diabetes: a Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1-16

  Little, Tariana V ^a   Wang, Monica L ^b   Castro, Eida M ^c   Jiménez, Julio ^c   Rosal, Milagros C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Community health worker; Culture; Hispanic; Literacy; Randomized control trial; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDLINE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84920926513     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-014-0558-1     Document Type: Review

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