Managing diabetes in primary care in the Caribbean
- PAHO April 2006
- x, 86 p. ill.
Seeks to provide a pragmatic approach to the diagnosis as well as the management of diabetes mellitus at the primary care level. Focuses on type 2 diabetes which affects over 95 percent of persons with diabetes in the Caribbean and the importance on non-drug or lifestyle management. Aims to provide management guidelines based on current knowledge and best practice with the expectation that these guidelines will be systematically applied and thus lead to improved care and outcomes in persons with diabetes in the Caribbean.
General
CARIBBEAN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
DIABETES
HEALTH
DISEASES
WHO
PAHO
CHRONIC DISEASES
HEALTH EDUCATION
01728-XI
Seeks to provide a pragmatic approach to the diagnosis as well as the management of diabetes mellitus at the primary care level. Focuses on type 2 diabetes which affects over 95 percent of persons with diabetes in the Caribbean and the importance on non-drug or lifestyle management. Aims to provide management guidelines based on current knowledge and best practice with the expectation that these guidelines will be systematically applied and thus lead to improved care and outcomes in persons with diabetes in the Caribbean.
General
CARIBBEAN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
DIABETES
HEALTH
DISEASES
WHO
PAHO
CHRONIC DISEASES
HEALTH EDUCATION
01728-XI