Preventing Diabetes Complication with Diet, Exercise, and Medication Compliance

Preventing Diabetes Complication Wit Diet, Exercise and Medical Compliance
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Preventing Diabetes Complication Wit Diet, Exercise and Medical Compliance
Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases around the world alongside heart diseases and cancer. It is estimated that 552 million people worldwide will be affected by diabetes by 2030 CITATION Mar12 \l 1033 (Marchant, 2012). In United States the diseases affects 6.2% which makes an approximate total of 17 million people. The incidences of diabetes is growing at a very high with 1 million new cases of diabetes reported each year. The disease tales up more than 10% of the healthcare resources and 25% of the medicate budget CITATION Lyn04 \l 1033 (Lynne, 2004). In order to manage the disease effectively several medical strategies have been deployed to reduce the complications and hence reduce the costs of care. Self-care behaviors have been argued to be among the most efficient methods of reducing the seven common behaviors that have been adopted include, health eating, being active, monitoring, taking medication, problem solving, health coping and reducing risks. These behaviors are individualized to meet patient’s unique needs Kent, et. al., 2013). Therefore self-management approaches are among the best strategies to manage diabetes effectively. This paper proposes that prevention of diabetes complication can be achieved trough diet, exercise and medical compliance.
The project shall be launched with the aim of identifying how the patients and the medical staff shall have changed at the end of the program. Therefore, a survey will be carried out before the launch of the program. Thus survey shall focus on the attitudes of the staff towards the use of the exercise, diet and medical compliance in relation to reducing cases of diabetes complication. The healthcare...