Awareness:
Understanding the risk factors of diabetes and the development of the disease over time and its devastating complications is essential for prevention, and effective public education programs are essential to the prevention of diabetes.
- There are awareness programs offered by health care providers, government institutions and non-profit organizations. However, these existing programs are not coordinated, and their means are neither effective nor well understood by public, nor reach all segments of the population of the State of Qatar.
Public surveys (Supreme Council for Health 2015-2) revealed that although there are many initiatives in the field of diabetes:
Through this pillar, the national strategy for diabetes will do the following:
- Provide targeted, clear and easy-to-understand messages through campaigns to encourage participation and motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and seek assistance when needed, by providing nationally agreed basic messages to help people remember what they need to do to avoid or control diabetes; So you use consistent and repetitive logos and brands to make messages understandable and easy to remember.
- Deliver consistent and frequent messages across multiple channels to ensure that messages arrive and understand well from all segments of the community, and identify the best channels for communicating with different segments of population to ensure that messages are delivered with maximum effectiveness..
Information and campaigns will be communicated through the following channels:
Prevention:
Diabetes is gradually developing over a long period of time, during which a person may have a pre-diabetes or "asymptomatic diabetes", and with the prevention program we will be able to identify those with undiagnosed diabetes. And those who are at risk of diabetes becoming more likely to develop.
- It is estimated that about one quarter to one third of people with diabetes do not know about their disease and are not treated, and they will be protected from the devastating complications of diabetes. It is also estimated that one in approximately six adults has pre-diabetes, and if they are treated well by lifestyle change and/or medication, they will be protected from disease
Through this pillar, the strategy will do the following:
- A national screening campaign to ensure appropriate care for everyone in the community will include all citizens and residents of Qatar, aged 18 and above, estimated at 500,000 (residential census 2010)
- Through this examination we will be able to identify the size and needs of:
- Healthy people who are more likely to have the disease
- People who are gaining much weight, obesity or pregnant women with a family history with diabetes
- People with pre-diabetes
- Diabetic patients who are not privatized and therefore untreated.
In future the examination will be:
- Part of routine medical examinations for all health care professionals
- The service is offered at diabetes events, healing centers, shopping centers, mosques, workplaces, schools, primary health care centers and diabetes clinics throughout the country
- Part of other procedures such as accommodation procedures, university registration and registration procedures In health insurance and dental examinations, and perhaps school admission procedures.
People are guided by the appropriate pathway in healthcare services to ensure that they have the right care in the right place and time, and by the right healthcare professionals. In the future:
- Persons considered to be more vulnerable to diabetes are referred to preventive treatment and counselling programs in community facilities and health clubs.
- Persons who have recently been screened and diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes have received education and treatment at a primary health care facility
- A patient is disorderly conduct diabetes or those at risk of developing diabetes complications to specialized diabetes treatment centers and complications.
The four key elements of the future Care Model
Create an accessible electronic record of diabetes information by actively gathering information and tracking all those at risk, pre-diabetes and diabetes to ensure that they receive appropriate support....
What does this mean for patient and those proper people?