Education for type 2 diabetes mellitus self-care: from compliance to empowerment

Through a critical review of the literature on education for diabetes self-care and self-management, it was sought to point out the inappropriateness of traditional approaches towards compliance with treatment and transmission of information, considering the complexity of self-care under chronic con...

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Main Authors: Antonio Pithon Cyrino, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Ricardo Rodrigues Teixeira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp)
Series:Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832009000300009&lng=en&tlng=en