The challenges of addressing primary prevention of diabetes: a response to recommendations from the chronic disease directors' project.
The challenges of addressing primary prevention of diabetes: a response to recommendations from the chronic disease directors' project.
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解决糖尿病一级预防的挑战:对慢性病主任项目建议的回应。
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
P. Nanavati
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作者:
Apophia Namageyo;P. Nanavati
The growing burden of diabetes in the United States is leading public health entities to reconsider the focus of their efforts to prevent and control the disease. In particular, they are striving to include primary prevention in their agendas. Many program reports and projects, specifically the chronic disease directors project, recommend effective ways to prevent diabetes. Science supports the need for primary prevention of diabetes, but the most effective ways to implement the chronic disease directors project's recommendations remain unclear. The purpose of this commentary is to review the programmatic challenges faced by a federal diabetes public health entity, the Division of Diabetes Translation. These include limited funding, little coordination of primary prevention efforts among disease-oriented programs, limited research on effective interventions, and the large population at risk for developing diabetes. We discuss these challenges with reference to the primary prevention of diabetes, but they have broader implications for the different public health entities (federal, state, and nongovernmental organizations) with a vested interest in diabetes because they attempt to implement similar primary prevention recommendations for other diseases.