Ascribed Meaning of Disease Control: Perspectives of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.

Background: Contemporary treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (hereafter diabetes) heavily emphasizes "diabetes control," largely defined by measurable blood glucose parameters. Little is known about how people living with the condition themselves define diabetes control within the lived experience of their disease.

Methods: As part of a qualitative study investigating the subjective construction of diabetes, 83 in-depth interviews were conducted with African American and non-Hispanic white older adults.

Routes to government TB treatment: private providers, family support, and the process of TB treatment seeking among Ugandan women.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major source of morbidity and mortality in Uganda. This cross-sectional study explores Ugandan women's TB treatment-seeking processes to determine the routes to effective government TB treatment among a sample of urban, semirural, and rural women. This research focuses on women in particular as Ugandan women with tuberculosis must negotiate their treatment paths in a context where women tend to be politically and economically marginalized, with limited control of household resources and senior family members' health care decisions.

Community neurorehabilitation: a synthesis of current evidence and future research directions.

Over the past decade, community neurorehabilitation has emerged as a promising extension of neurological rehabilitation. The goal of community neurorehabilitation is to maximize functional ability and quality of life through multidimensional rehabilitation that occurs while the individual is living in a home versus acute or transitory care setting. Because of its multidisciplinary focus, many variations of community neurorehabilitation teams have been implemented.