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Public Health Mini-Guides: Diabetes

  • 1st Edition - August 5, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Josie Evans, Angela Scriven
  • Editor: Angela Scriven
  • Language: English

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 be… Read more

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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 its prevention and management. This Mini-Guide explores in more detail how public health practice might address some of these issues.

Key features

  • Covers all aspects of a public health approach to diabetes
  • Individual and population-level interventions
  • Case study examples help relate practice to theory
  • ‘Thinking points’ encourage reflection and are a teaching aid
  • Each chapter ends with summary points, websites and further reading lists to help direct readers.

Readership

Nursing and Allied Health readers whether they be in undergraduate or postgraduate training or clinical practice.

Table of contents

1. Definitions and epidemiology of diabetes

2. The burden and risks of diabetic complications

3. Management of diabetes and prevention of diabetic complications

4. Organisation of diabetes care

5. Living with diabetes

6. Public health prevention of diabetes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 14, 2015
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Angela Scriven

Angela Scriven is a Reader in Health Promotion at Brunel University in London, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the field of health promotion for over 30 years and has published widely including authoring, editing or co-editing the following books Health Promotion Alliances: Theory and Practice (1998); Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives (1996; 2001 2nd edn); Promoting Health: Global Perspectives (2005); Health Promoting Practice: The Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2005); Public Health: Social Context and Action (2007); Promoting Health: A Practical Guide (2010); Health Promotion for Health Practitioners (2010); Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice (2012). Her research is centred on the relationship between health promotion policy and practice within specific contexts. She is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), is President Elect for the Institute of Health Promotion and Education (IHPE) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
Affiliations and expertise
Reader in Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, London, UK

About the authors

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Josie Evans

Josie Evans is a Reader in Public Health in the School of Health Sciences, University of Stirling. She works within the Centre for Public Health and Population Health where she leads a team on Epidemiology, with a special focus on diabetes. She has published widely on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes, the outcomes of different treatments in diabetes and self-management behaviours. Much of her work involves the analysis of large routinely collected health datasets. Josie teaches on the Masters in Research within the School of Health Sciences and is also the Research Postgraduate Tutor.
Affiliations and expertise
Reader in Public Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Stirling

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Angela Scriven

Angela Scriven is a Reader in Health Promotion at Brunel University in London, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the field of health promotion for over 30 years and has published widely including authoring, editing or co-editing the following books Health Promotion Alliances: Theory and Practice (1998); Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives (1996; 2001 2nd edn); Promoting Health: Global Perspectives (2005); Health Promoting Practice: The Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2005); Public Health: Social Context and Action (2007); Promoting Health: A Practical Guide (2010); Health Promotion for Health Practitioners (2010); Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice (2012). Her research is centred on the relationship between health promotion policy and practice within specific contexts. She is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), is President Elect for the Institute of Health Promotion and Education (IHPE) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
Affiliations and expertise
Reader in Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, London, UK