Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi are working to understand the challenges Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino adults face in joining prediabetes intervention programs. These groups face higher rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes compared to others.
A recent study by UH Mānoa’s Healthy Hawaiʻi Evaluation Team, in partnership with the Hawaiʻi Department of Health and Hawaiʻi Primary Care Association, looked at the barriers keeping people from joining and staying in these programs. Read more…