Nurse Faculty Scholar Explores Ways to Improve Latino Health
August 29, 2011 | Story
Maren Coffman develops an interactive teaching method that helps Latinos with diabetes access care and manage their disease.
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Trends in Diabetes Prevalence and Diabetes- Related Complications in Older Mexican Americans from 1993-1994 to 2004-2005
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines changes in the prevalence of diabetes in Mexican Americans aged 75 and older since the early 1990s. Mexican Americans have higher rates of diabetes than non-Hispanic White Americans but little is known about older Mexican Americans with diabetes.
Talking to Latinos About Diabetes, Using Words They Understand
February 2, 2009 | Story
The majority of health information provided to the Latino community often lacks language and cultural sensitivity, making it hard to understand.
Giving All Latinos the Same Diabetes Care May Mean Inappropriate Treatment for Some
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
South Carolina College of Medicine analyzed national survey data to understand differences in the quality of diabetes care and the impact of acculturation among three Latino subgroups in the U.S. and for Latinos in general.
Soap-Opera-Style Spanish-Language Video Aims to Help Hispanics Prevent or Manage Diabetes
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
The University of Massachusetts Medical School created a videotaped soap-opera-style drama for use in interventions designed to increase physical activity and improve diets among low-literate and illiterate Hispanic individuals.
Who Can Respond to Treatment?
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians need a method of quantifying the risks and benefits of treatment for patient subgroups (i.e., those with different health profiles). This article describes the development of the Potential for Benefit Scale (PBS), a composite measure of potential treatment response.
Primary Language, Income and the Intensification of Anti-Glycemic Medications in Managed Care
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines how language and income interact with treatment of Type II diabetes in a large managed-care trial. Previous research has shown that minorities and low-socioeconomic status individuals have more poorly controlled blood sugar levels than White Americans.
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change-An Update
January 10, 2012 | Video/Story
Since 2005, Finding Answers has awarded and managed research grants totaling $8 million to health care organizations implementing interventions aimed at reducing disparities.
Preventive Care
August 1, 2007 | Report
This report on the underuse of preventive care in the U.S. documents how many lives are lost unnecessarily each year due to underutilization of preventive care and details which services in particular are not being efficiently accessed by Americans. ...
Physician Faculty Scholar Explores Latinos' Access to Preventive Care
December 2, 2009 | Story
Michael Dulin finds Spanish speakers less likely to get colorectal cancer screenings.