Diabetes

• Main Authors: Evans, Josie (Author), Scriven, Angela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Elsevier 2016
• Series: Public Health Mini-Guides
• Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus
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• Physical Description: x, 116 pages 20 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-109) and index
• ISBN: 9780702046377; 070204637X

Public Health Mini-Guides: Diabetes provides up-to-date, evidence-based information in a convenient pocket-sized format. Diabetes is a worldwide public health concern and is being referred to as the 'global epidemic of diabetes', the 'silent epidemic' and the 'diabetes timebomb'. The increasing incidence of diabetes, the heavy burden of morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes, and its spiralling healthcare costs, underpin the importance of a public health approach to the prevention and management of diabetes. This Mini-Guide explores in more detail how public health practice might address some of these issues