10-part diabetes audio series available free
February 24, 2010The new 10-part audio series Diabetes Matters, produced by the Rural Health Education Foundation in collaboration with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association and the Australian Diabetes Society, is now available for free on CD and online.
Australian health professionals can now order a free CD set of the series, download audio files of each 20-minute program from the Foundation’s website, or listen to the programs via web streaming.
“The aim of this series is to improve the skills of health professionals in diagnosing and managing diabetes,” says Rural Health Education Foundation CEO Don Perlgut. “We’re happy to be able to distribute these 10 important programs on CD, to complement the usual free program access via our website.”
“Best practice diabetes education and management is dependent on having the latest information,” says Clair Matthews, the Executive Director of the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), an organisation which collaborated on the series. “The free CDs of the series will help to ensure that current information, along with explanations of the latest evidence-based techniques, is distributed to as many Australian health professionals as possible.”
How to experience the audio series for free
To order a free CD (one copy per individual or organisation), ensure you are logged in to the Foundation website as a registered user (registration is free), then click the “add to cart” button on the right-hand side of the Diabetes Matters series page.
Registered users can also click the “download podcast” or “listen to podcast” buttons on the individual program pages (see program links below) to download or stream the audio file of each program.
About the Diabetes Matters audio series
Diabetes Matters is an audio interview series on diabetes issues for health and medical professionals produced by the Foundation in collaboration with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) and the Australian Diabetes Society. The target audience for these programs include doctors, diabetes educators, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and Aboriginal Health Workers.
The series consists of 10 programs, each 20 minutes long:
1 - Diagnosing and managing pre-diabetes
2 - Diagnosing and managing GDM (pregnancy in diabetes)
3 - Diabetes and mental health
4 - Ambulatory initiation of insulin in type 2 diabetes
5 - Oral diabetes medicines (and algorithms in care and targets)
7 - Managing chronic diabetes complications
8 - Supporting self management
9 - Diabetes in childhood and adolescence
10 - Treatment options and regimens in type 1 diabetes
CD funding
Distribution of the free audio CDs is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
More information
For more information about this and other free program resources, please visit the Foundation’s free resources page.