New diabetes strategy
November 16, 2015
Coinciding with World Diabetes
Day on 14 Nov, the Australian
Government has released
the new Australian National
Diabetes Strategy, “a blueprint for
improving the prevention, care and
management of diabetes to the end
of the decade”.
Announcing the initiative,
Minister for Health Sussan Ley
said, “It is likely that more than
one million Australians, that is five
per cent of adults, are living with
diabetes.
“For this reason the emphasis
of the strategy is on prevention,
early diagnosis, intervention,
management and treatment, centred
on the role of primary care.”
Ley said that the theme of this
year’s World Diabetes Day was
on healthy eating as a key factor
in preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.
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