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Environmental Disparities Present A Challenge For Diabetes Prevention And Management Efforts In Dallas County, Theresa Mendoza, Sushma Sharma, Pamela Daughty, Crystee Cooper, Carol Young, Larry Tubb, Kristin Jenkins, Community Health Collaborative Of North Texas (Chc)
Environmental Disparities Present A Challenge For Diabetes Prevention And Management Efforts In Dallas County, Theresa Mendoza, Sushma Sharma, Pamela Daughty, Crystee Cooper, Carol Young, Larry Tubb, Kristin Jenkins, Community Health Collaborative Of North Texas (Chc)
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
The State of Texas is home to nearly 2 million men, women and children with diabetes, over half a million of which reside in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) region. Recognizing the rising need to identify the disparities in implementing the diabetes prevention and management efforts and adopting the healthy life style in high diabetes prevalence areas in Dallas County, we explored the potential of Geographic Information System (GIS) methodology to analyze the data at zip code level from Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) Research Foundation’s data registry. The objectives of this research were to identify the zip codes with the …