North Carolina initiative targets CVD and diabetes with telehealth intervention.
Disadvantaged populations are adversely affected by chronic disease, but they are among the toughest to reach with preventive care. However, the innovators behind a bold initiative in North Carolina are hoping that a telehealth intervention can bridge at least some of these gaps in care and possibly even change the course of chronic disease in schoolchildren.
D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D009657:North Carolina; D011203:Poverty; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics*