A community health worker-led program to improve access to gestational diabetes screening in urban slums of Pune, India: Results from a mixed methods study.

A community health worker-led program to improve access to gestational diabetes screening in urban slums of Pune, India: Results from a mixed methods study.

The World Health Organization recommends all pregnant women receive screening for gestational diabetes (GDM) with a fasting oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). However, very few women receive recommended screening in resource-limited countries like India. We implemented a community health worker (CH...

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Main Authors: Puja Chebrolu, Andrea Chalem, Matthew Ponticiello, Kathryn Broderick, Arthi Vaidyanathan, Rachel Lorenc, Vaishali Kulkarni, Ashlesha Onawale, Jyoti S Mathad, Radhika Sundararajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001622&type=printable

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