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Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala

BACKGROUND: The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980. Seventy-five percent of patients with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries, such as Guatemala, where health care systems are often poorly equipped for chronic disease management. Community health workers (CHWs)...

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Autores principales: Duffy, Sean, Norton, Derek, Kelly, Mark, Chavez, Alejandro, Tun, Rafael, Ramírez, Mariana Niño de Guzmán, Chen, Guanhua, Wise, Paul, Svenson, Jim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33361237
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00076