Taking Action to Prevent Diabetes
Duration: 75 minutes
Program ID: 317
This broadcast focuses on the important role General Practitioners and other primary health care providers can play in the primary prevention, health promotion and early detection of Type 2 diabetes. Recent evidence clearly demonstrates that lifestyle modification can prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of developing diabetes.
Program Presenters
- Chair: Dr Norman Swan - Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National
- Dr John Aloizos - AM, General Practitioner and Chair of the National Integrated Diabetes Program
- Professor Kerin O'Dea AO - Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, VIC
- Mr Paul Zimmet - AM, OM, Director, International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC.
Learning Outcomes
- Appropriate case detection and early diagnosis methods. Who should be tested for undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes? How should case detection and diagnosis testing for Type 2 diabetes be performed and how often should it be performed?
- The latest evidence for key modifiable risk factors such as diet, exercise and weight control; and Practical strategies that General Practitioners and other health professionals can use in partnership with consumers to change unhealthy lifestyle behaviour
Broadcast Dates
This program was first broadcast on the Foundation's satellite network on Tuesday 18 November 2003.
Funding Bodies
Accreditation
This program is accredited for CPD/CPE by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Royal College of Nursing Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
