Social Interaction Mechanisms Of Diabetes

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Social Interaction Mechanisms and associated technologies. Social media has a huge impact on everyone’s life in 21st century. Proper utilization of these online resources can lead to abatement of Diabetes incidence rate throughout the world. Diabetes is a condition rather than a disease and most of the Type 2 patients need permanent changes in their lifestyles for entire lifetime inorder to keep the condition under control. In case of a curable disease patients are generally motivated to get rid of the ailment , but in case of Diabetes which is statistically incurable , patients need proper channels to keep them motivated. This is where social media plays a very important role in finding peers who are suffering from same ailments to collaboratively …show more content…

For instance, if there is a post on beta cell progression by a patient to minimize the problems associated with diabetes , it may or may not help all the fellow patients. Another major factor is lack of quality check can do more harm than good in conditions like Type 2 diabetes which is why people should refrain from blindly believing on the tips found here. They help in bringing people together to fight the disease but without proper screening and physician advice these solutions should not be …show more content…

Patients can enrol themselves for diabetes education programs offered by http://ndep.nih.gov to develop a balanced perspective about the condition and strategically aim to reduce or delay the incidence rate in future with healthy life choices. We can develop an integrated mobile application connecting to different diabetes education platforms so that a knowledgeable community of physicians , dieticians and patient is built without having access to a desktop . Easy availability of credible information on the application will avoid misinterpretations and will reinforce our goal of prescribed education through social media platforms. The application can adopt a gamification approach to constantly motivate the patients to stay fit as diabetes control can indirectly help in improvement of the cardiovascular and renal functions which are adversely affected with progression of diabetes and age. Potential life hazards statistically tend to motivate people hence weekly analysis of body vitals through integration of Fitbit or applications like Google Fit with our diabetes control application will help them set realistic goals and work on them

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