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World leaders must be made to recognize the dual threat of TB and diabetes – and make it a high policymaking priority – before it is too late.
If the Chinese government does use this approach to stimulate the purchase of insurance, it should limit the favorable tax treatment to insurance for expensive medical conditions like surgery or the treatment of diabetes.
Research shows that women who have breastfed during their lives are less likely to develop non-communicable diseases like cardiovascular illness, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes.
The latter approach is particularly relevant to conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, which most closely reflect individual behavior, physical context, and socioeconomic factors.
Consider diabetes.
Their activities do not extend to helping the hundreds of millions of obese people at risk of diabetes, or to those who respond poorly to existing treatment.
But the key to living well with diabetes is a nutritious diet, an active lifestyle, social support, and coaching that is tailored to each individual’s circumstances.
This basic formula also forms the foundation of efforts to prevent diabetes, as well as most chronic diseases.
Examples of this new approach include technology companies such as Omada Health, which delivers customized online health coaching at home for people at risk of diabetes; social enterprises, such as the Grameen Bank, which is building low-cost primary care systems on the back of its microlending networks; and the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign, which teaches ordinary citizens how to provide care in their own communities, based on lessons learned from similar models in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Developing new antibiotics is difficult and expensive – and, crucially, far less profitable than investments in other important fields, such as cancer and diabetes.
According to the US Institute of Medicine, one in three people suffer from chronic pain – more than from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined.
Nerve damage resulting from diabetes (diabetic neuropathy) and persistent pain after shingles (postherpetic neuralgia) are among the most common causes.
As lives have gotten longer and lifestyles have changed, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory ailments have taken hold, becoming far and away the world’s leading causes of death.
Consider diabetes, one of the fastest-growing NCDs.
According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, diabetes killed 1.5 million people in 2012, about the same number as TB.
But while TB deaths have declined by half since 1990, the impact of diabetes is rising fast.
In 1980, 100 million people were living with diabetes, a rate of about one person in 20; today, more than 400 million, or one in 12, have the disease.
Type 2 diabetes, the more common variant, is associated with inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and smoking – lifestyle factors common in rich and poor countries alike.
A recent study authored by PATH, with support from Novo Nordisk, reported that across Benin, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and Zambia, just 20% of the health facilities that provide diabetes diagnosis and treatment had insulin in stock, and only one in four had testing strips available to monitor diabetes.
These failings mean that almost half of diabetes cases outside wealthy countries are undiagnosed or inadequately managed.
What will it take to ensure that people have the tools and medicines to diagnose, treat, and monitor diabetes?
For starters, policymakers and donors must acknowledge the disproportionate impact of diabetes on poor communities and focus greater attention and funding on prevention and treatment.
Prevention programs that promote healthier diets and exercise can lower the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and reduce complications for those who have the disease.
And investment in health care systems in low- and middle-income countries can help them to adapt to the increasing burden of lifelong diseases such as diabetes.
Moreover, we must invest in research and development of low-cost diabetes treatments and diagnostic tools that are suited for low-resource environments.
Similarly, mistaken beliefs are often a problem: for example, diabetes is referred to colloquially as “sugar,” and diabetics can erroneously believe that curbing sugar intake is the only thing they need to do.
More than 80% of NCD deaths are the result of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, and diabetes.
For example, diabetes patients in the United States with the lowest level of compliance have a 30% yearly risk of hospitalization, compared to a 13% risk for patients with a high level of adherence.
Fat-related diabetes is becoming epidemic in India.
Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer – has ignored this advice.
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