CAMBODIANS and DIABETES:
A Webinar on Diabetes Care and Prevention in the Cambodian Community Date Aired:
February 26, 2009
Diabetes is one of many chronic interacting health and mental health conditions
among Cambodian American survivors of the Pol Pot regime. To help Cambodian Americans
with their diabetes, understanding of their history of trauma and loss is essential.
Diabetes in Cambodian survivors cannot be addressed in isolation from other health
conditions, language problems, access issues, lack of Cambodian professional infrastructure,
or cultural issues. This webinar addresses the complex problems associated with
diabetes care and offer culturally appropriate solutions to diabetes care and prevention
in the Cambodian Community. The Eat/Walk/Sleep in Balance diabetes campaign message
incorporates Cambodian core values and focuses on health life style modifications.
This can be used to address not only the many aspects of diabetes but other intertwined
health and mental health problems as well.
The Presenter: Dr. Richard Miller, M.D. Dr. Miller is a psychiatrist and
the Medical Director of Khmer Health Advocates. He has devoted over 25 years to
the Cambodian community, and specializes in torture treatment care. He has authored
several articles on Cambodian survivors and assisted in the development of bi-lingual
tools and guided an innovative telemedicine project for torture survivors. He serves
on the CT Diabetes Advisory Council and is the medical advisor for Khmer Health
Advocates community health programs.
This program is supported by the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), Cooperative Agreement Number U58/DP124586 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NDEP is a joint initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC or NIH.
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