Patient and provider perspectives on using telemedicine for chronic disease management among Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native people
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Patient and provider perspectives on using telemedicine for chronic disease management among Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native people
BACKGROUND Among indigenous populations in remote locations who are at increased risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, telemedicine has the potential to improve access to health care services and thus may reduce adverse health outcomes. Yet few studies are available on how best to use telemedicine technology in reducing ethnic and racial health care disparities. OBJECTIVE We examined pe...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2242-3982
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21401