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Reducing Disparities Through Peer Support - 0 views

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  • Tom Fields on 18 Jul 12
     
    The featured Innovations describe a mentor program for African-American veterans with diabetes that improved blood glucose control and an interactive education class for kidney transplant candidates that increased the percentage of African-American patients and people of lower socioeconomic status, who completed the transplant evaluation process.
Tom Fields

Community Partnership Uses Lay Health Advisers to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk Factors, ... - 0 views

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  • Tom Fields on 05 Jul 12
     
    The program, which involved two distinct project periods (1999-2000 for planning and 2000-2007 for implementation), improved health-related skills and behaviors (e.g., eating more healthfully, engaging in more physical activity), leading to anecdotal reports of better health.
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