Diabetes affects more than half a billion people worldwide, but nearly one-half of them don’t know that they have the condition. At the same time, people living with diabetes look after their own care more than 95 percent of the time, so they need to understand their condition, how to manage it, and keep their knowledge updated.
To fill that need, and to mark World Diabetes Day 2022 (14 November), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) launched a new online platform that provides free interactive courses to help people with diabetes, and those who care for them, understand and manage their condition.
The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is access to diabetes care. In 2022, the campaign focuses on the need for better access to quality diabetes education.
Free online courses to understand diabetes
The Understanding Diabetes platform features free interactive courses on various aspects of diabetes care and management.
The first course – An Introduction to Diabetes – explains how the condition develops in the body, describes the main types, and explores the warning signs, risk factors and complications. The second course – The basics of blood glucose control – looks at the importance of keeping blood glucose levels in the target range when possible to help prevent or delay long-term complications of diabetes.
IDF’s School of Diabetes also offers online courses to help healthcare professionals keep up-to-date with diabetes management and treatment.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas is no longer able to make insulin, or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces. Diabetes is now among the top 10 causes of death worldwide – deaths from diabetes have increased by 70 percent since 2000.
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