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Diabetes Garage Puts Men on Track to Manage Disease

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. Hispanic health disparities
  2. cultural health beliefs
  3. stress
  4. mental health
  5. type 2 diabetes
  6. Health & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
  7. Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues

Featured Researcher(s):

Concha, Jeannie
College: Health Sciences
Department: Public Health Sciences
Diabetes Garage Puts Men on Track to Manage Disease
Date: August 06, 2018



Looking after your health is like doing routine maintenance on your car. If you do not change the oil in your vehicle or you skip doctor’s appointments, your car and your body will begin to break down. That is the point that Jeannie Belinda Concha, Ph.D., a public health educator, made when she asked men such as her brothers why they checked the oil in their cars every three months, but would not to go to the doctor for a routine physical exam.


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