Health promoters make diabetes educators more efficient.
Latinos make up almost one-third the population of Hartford, CT, and it is estimated that 12% of the city's Latino population has diabetes. But at Hartford Hospital there are only a few diabetes educators who speak Spanish and enrollment in the hospital's Spanish diabetes classes is limited because they are held once a month.
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