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Hope for Diabetes Prevention: US Government Urges Pre-Diabetes Testing for Overweight Americans
The US government is urging its citizens to get tested for pre-diabetes, a treatable condition. Changes in diet and physical activity can prevent type 2 diabetes from ever occurring. This document offers more information on how to possibly avoid diabetes.(29/Mar/2002)
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Photo Gallery: Veracruz Initiative for Diabetes Awareness (VIDA Project)
The VIDA Project is a joint intervention of the Secretary of Health of Mexico and the Diabetes Declaration of the Americas (DOTA), through PAHO/WHO, consisting of a one-year intervention involving in-service training of primary-care personnel on diabetes management, as well as the implementation of a structured diabetes education program and a variety of innovative initiatives created by the local teams. The photos illustrate the project's grassroots activities.(21/Jul/2004)
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Prevalence of Diabetes among Older Adults in Seven Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): The Health Wellbeing and Ageing (SABE) Project
This full-size color poster describes the diabetes component of the interprogrammatic multicenter study on Health, Wellbeing and Ageing (SABE Project, from the acronym in Spanish Salud Bienestar y Envejecimiento), carried out in seven major cities in seven countries of Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Uruguay. It contains a summary of the project and its main findings, including graphs with quantitative data.(18/Jun/2004)
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Global Percentage of Deaths due to Injury (1999)
This MS Powerpoint slide, from the WHO Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIP), contains a pie graph showing the percentages of global deaths due to different types of injuries, both intencional and non-intentional, for 1999.(31/May/2002)
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WHO Collaborating Centers for Diabetes
This list provides contact information for all the WHO Collaborating Centers working in the area of diabetes.(11/Jul/2002)
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PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers, Noncommunicable and Chronic Diseases
This document offers a list of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers in the Region of the Americas that work in the area of noncommunicable and chronic diseases. When possible, links are provided to their websites.(18/Aug/2001)
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Technical Documents
Symposium on Diabetes Economics (São Paulo, Brazil, 27 September 2004)
The Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes (DOTA), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), and PAHO--in coordination with the Latin American Diabetes Association (ALAD)--take pleasure in carrying out this symposium on one of the most important aspects of diabetes: what it costs. This page contains a summary, a fact sheet on the cost of diabetes, an agenda and the presentations.(21/Oct/2004)
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Final Report: Institutional Response to Diabetes and Its Complications (IRDC): An Evaluation of the Quality of Diabetes Care
Diabetes care and education are among the most important aspects in the fight against diabetes. Improvement in diabetes control is linked to better quality of life and survival. The aim of this PAHO-DOTA study was to assess the quality of care for people with diabetes mellitus (DM) in four outpatient clinics in The Bahamas, one specialized clinic in Jamaica, and two hospitals in Saint Lucia. This page offers a summary and access to the full-text report, including data tables.(10/Oct/2004)
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Promoting Better Health for People with Diabetes—DOTA: Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes
This brochure (available for download in color printable form with the text posted on this page) outlines the activities currently being carried out in the Region by PAHO and its partners within the framework of DOTA: education, awareness and organizational development, activities aimed at children and adolescents, epidemiology, and building blocks to control the disease.(23/Jul/2004)
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