Diabetes Health Promotion

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Diabetes introduction Diabetes is a serious complex condition which can affect the entire body. Diabetes requires daily self-care and if complications develop, diabetes can have a significant impact on quality of life and can reduce life expectancy. While there is currently no cure for diabetes, you can live an enjoyable life by learning about the condition and effectively managing it. The main symptoms of diabetes are: *feeling very thirsty *urinating frequently, particularly at night *feeling very tired *weight loss and loss of muscle bulk. 1. Develop Personal Skills Define Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it increases the options available to …show more content…

food labels food labels can be used to decide whether a food is suitable for someone with diabetes and for choosing the better option from a range of similar products. 2. developing healthy lunch policy Developing healthy lunch policy is an important part about because it shows a person how to eat healthy. 3. Health promotion The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions and governments. They must work together towards a health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health. The role of the health sector must move increasingly in a health promotion direction, beyond its responsibility for providing clinical and curative services How it relates to the action area How building healthy public policy relates to diabetes is simple by having the policy theres a chance of people not getting diabetes and it creates healthy lifestyle for people with or without diabetes. targeted audience and why The main aim of health public policy is to create a supportive environment to enable people to lead healthy lives. Such a policy makes health choices possible or easier for

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