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2016 Report on Diabetes in Newfoundland and Labrador /

5 Dec 2016

More care to tackle the burden of diabetes, including poor than one in five people smokes cigarettes, half of the coordination of primary health care and wellness provincial population are deemed physically inactive, efforts, lack of screening for diabetes complications, and over 70 per cent do not eat enough fruits and limited diabetes surveillance, and the need for a vegetables. [...] Kelly has been unlucky in the timing the way it is managed, and prevent diabetes-related of her insulin pump purchases and the availability of complications so that the health-care system will save government programs that cover the cost of insulin money in the long run.” pumps. [...] These include government Primary Health Care Office at the Department of Health policies and guidelines to protect children with diabetes and Community Services was also created to coordinate in school in every province and territory; adoption of services including prevention and management of our recommendations to prevent foot problems and diabetes. [...] However, when the funding ended in 2006, amputation; improved access to diabetes supports such the government discontinued funding for the Primary as medications, devices, supplies and healthy foods; Health Care Office and thereby ended its coordinating enhanced diabetes care and screening; reduction in role of primary health care in the province.2 stigma and discrimination related to diabetes; ma [...] The strategy should include the following key components in order to successfully Currently in Newfoundland and Labrador, there is a reduce the burden of diabetes: lack of coordinated diabetes care and limited capacity for diabetes surveillance, as observed by the provincial • A diabetes registry or database, to track diabetes- Auditor General.
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Toronto, ON, CA

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