Positive community responses to an arts-health program designed to tackle diabetes and kidney disease in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia: a qualitative study.
CONCLUSIONS: Outreach clinical services can be an appropriate method of engaging people in remote communities in addressing diabetes and kidney disease.
IMPLICATIONS: The remote community setting can act as an 'enabler' of healthy lifestyle for Aboriginal people, particularly when augmented by well-designed outreach programs.
PMID: 27197563 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sinclair C, Stokes A, Jeffries-Stokes C, Daly J Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research
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