Mississippi Institute for Improvement of Geographic Minority Health

 

Alcorn State University, Carolyn Dollar, Interim Associate Dean, School of Nursing is Principal Investigator of the project titled “Eliminating Health Disparities: Community-Based Diabetes Health Education in Rural Mississippi.” This project will explore and document knowledge about the disease process of diabetes, as well as knowledge of disease self-management among African Americans diagnosed with or at high risk of developing the disease.

 

The project is designed to accomplish four objectives:

 

1) provide information about the disease process of diabetes mellitus;

2) discuss the risk factors for developing diabetes mellitus;

3) describe strategies for self-management and for preventing complications; and

4) determine access to care among African Americans with diabetes mellitus.

 

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