title: To fight bad suga', or diabetes, my neighborhood needs more health educators.
abstract: A health researcher who's seen the devastation in his poor Chicago community calls for national prevention programs that place these workers at the core.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. joseph.west@sinai.org
authors.forename: Joseph F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: West
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000850:Anomie; D002641:Chicago; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003927:Diet, Diabetic; D005544:Forecasting; D006266:Health Education / Q000639:trends*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009753:Nutritive Value; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012111:Residence Characteristics