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Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala

Sean Duffy, Derek Norton, Mark Kelly, Alejandro Chavez, Rafael Tun, Mariana Niño de Guzmán Ramírez, Guanhua Chen, Paul Wise and Jim Svenson
Global Health: Science and Practice December 2020, 8(4):699-720; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00076
Sean Duffy
aUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Madison, WI, USA.
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Derek Norton
bUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Madison, WI, USA.
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Mark Kelly
cUniversity of California-Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Alejandro Chavez
dStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Rafael Tun
eHospital Obras Sociales Monseñor Gregorio Schaffer, San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala.
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Mariana Niño de Guzmán Ramírez
aUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Madison, WI, USA.
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Guanhua Chen
bUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Madison, WI, USA.
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Paul Wise
dStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Jim Svenson
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vol. 8 no. 4 699-720
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00076
PubMed 
33361237

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
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  • Received: February 13, 2020
  • Accepted: September 1, 2020
  • Published online December 23, 2020.

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  1. Sean Duffya⇑,
  2. Derek Nortonb,
  3. Mark Kellyc,
  4. Alejandro Chavezd,
  5. Rafael Tune,
  6. Mariana Niño de Guzmán Ramíreza,
  7. Guanhua Chenb,
  8. Paul Wised,
  9. Jim Svensonf
  1. aUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Madison, WI, USA.
  2. bUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Madison, WI, USA.
  3. cUniversity of California-Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  4. dStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
  5. eHospital Obras Sociales Monseñor Gregorio Schaffer, San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala.
  6. fUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Madison, WI, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Sean Duffy (sean.duffy{at}fammed.wisc.edu).
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