In its day, everything you need to know about this disease, and the importance of its spread.
Every November 14th is commemorated World Diabetes Daywith the aim of raising awareness about the impact of diabetes on people’s health and highlighting the opportunities that exist to strengthen prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when glucose or blood sugar is too high. Glucose is the body’s main source of energy. Although the body can produce it, glucose also comes from the food you eat.
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World Diabetes Day: why November 14
This day was established by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991, due to the alarming increase in cases of diabetes in the world.
In December 2006, the approval of the World Diabetes Day Resolutionwhich turned the already existing World Diabetes Day into an official UN health day.
What we can do to control diabetes
To stop the increase in diabetes, the following strategies must be implemented:
- The prevention of diabetes and its risk factors, especially overweight/obesity and insufficient physical activity.
- Screening for diabetes in the general population and close monitoring of the at-risk population.
- Improve the diagnostic capacity of health services for diabetes.
- Continuous monitoring of people living with diabetes.
- Improve referral and care capacity at the secondary level of care.
- Access to quality diabetes education, which guarantees adequate training of the health team and also of people living with diabetes, their closest circle, their caregivers and society in general.
- Access to essential diabetes medications and technologies, including insulin.
- Information systems for data collection for diabetes monitoring and surveillance.
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