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Trends In Primary Care Visits And Diabetes Control For Type 2 Diabetics Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Carole Berini
Trends In Primary Care Visits And Diabetes Control For Type 2 Diabetics Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Carole Berini
MUSC Theses and Dissertations
Community health worker interventions have shown potential to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities particularly for patients with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, there is a lack of support for CHW integration in the delivery of health care. The recent COVID pandemic may have affected outcomes for T2D patients and exacerbated existing inequities in care. This dissertation aimed to address three broad questions through three separate manuscripts. The first one was a systematic literature review to examine the impact of community health workers on health outcomes for rural US populations. The second and third papers used …