Evans, Josie  <br/><br/>
Public Health Mini-Guides: Diabetes 

 - USA  Elsevier  c2016 
 - 116 
<br/><br/> 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’.<br/><br/>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 its prevention and management. This Mini-Guide explores in more detail how public health practice might address some of these issues. 
<br/><br/>Contents<br/>1. Definitions and epidemiology of diabetes<br/><br/>2. The burden and risks of diabetic complications<br/><br/>3. Management of diabetes and prevention of diabetic complications<br/><br/>4. Organisation of diabetes care<br/><br/>5. Living with diabetes<br/><br/>6. Public health prevention of diabetes 
<br/><br/> Key Features<br/>Covers all aspects of a public health approach to diabetes<br/>Individual and population-level interventions<br/>Case study examples help relate practice to theory<br/>‘Thinking points’ encourage reflection and are a teaching aid<br/>Each chapter ends with summary points, websites and further reading lists to help direct readers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0-7020-4637-7 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label> Allied Informatics, Jaipur 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.462  / EVA