Migrant workers living in shelters: therapeutic education for patients with diabetes.

In Vitry-sur-Seine, the city’s health services are organizing therapeutic education sessions in shelters housing retired migrants to improve the quality of life for patients with diabetes. Two interpreters from the community and a social mediator provide an essential link to these patients, who do not have access to standard medical care.

Author(s): Tessier Stéphane

Publishing year: 2017

Pages: 25

Health in Action, 2017, n° 442, p. 25

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