Culturally appropriate health education for people in ethnic minority groups with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Attridge, Madeleine ^a   Creamer, John ^a   Ramsden, Michael ^a   Cannings John, Rebecca ^a   Hawthorne, Kamila ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIABETIC COMPLICATION; EMPOWERMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FOLLOW UP; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGHEST INCOME GROUP; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84940797362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006424.pub3     Document Type: Review

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