What is it about?
This article is acknowledging how knowledge can serve as an important tool in health self management especially in the context of diabetes.
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Why is it important?
By measuring people’s cultural knowledge on diabetes accurately, researchers can learn how to improve treatment and increase health literacy in general throughout Asia.
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When dealing with non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, knowledge serves as a vital tool to empower patients, increase self efficacy and instill self confidence for them to make the right health decisions.
Mr Mohammad Rezal Hamzah
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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This page is a summary of: Diabetes knowledge in health communication research, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, December 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/japc.25.2.03moh.
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