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Health Beliefs About Chronic Disease and its Treatment Among Aging Cambodian Americans

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the staff and administration of the following organizations for their contributions to this process: Cambodian Association of America, United Cambodian Community, Friends of Mount Carmel, Cambodian Family of Santa Ana, Immigrant and Refugee Community of Oregon, Cambodian Association of Illinois, Cambodian Association of Minnesota, Alliance of Multicultural Community Services of Houston, Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Lowell, Metta Clinic of the Lowell Community Health Center, Social Economic Development Center For South East Asians. Special thanks to Dr. Deborah Jeffrys of Polycom Inc. who coordinated the use of the telecommunications equipment and software and to David Marinelli of HB Communications for his technology support and troubleshooting efforts. Paul Ouk set up videoconferencing connections with all sites. Hassan Saleheen, M.D. trained the community health workers to administer the survey and he evaluated the data from the meeting.

Funding for this study was provided by the National Diabetes Education Program, Office of Refugee Resettlement Services for Victims of Torture, REACH US project of the Centers for Disease Control.

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  1. Khmer Health Advocates, West Hartford, CT, USA

    Theanvy Kuoch & Mary Scully

  2. University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

    Julie Wagner & Thiruchandurai V. Rajan

  3. Society for New Communications Research, Inc. / Health Justice CT, Hartford, CT, USA

    Heang Kim Tan

  4. MC3910 UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA

    Julie Wagner

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Wagner, J., Kuoch, T., Tan, H.K. et al. Health Beliefs About Chronic Disease and its Treatment Among Aging Cambodian Americans. J Cross Cult Gerontol 28, 481–489 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-013-9214-5

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