Diabetes Matters - Audio Series
Duration: 200 minutes
Program ID: 918 | Purchase Price: $210.00 (full audio series on CD)
The Rural Health Education Foundation in collaboration with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association and the Australian Diabetes Society has produced Diabetes Matters, an audio interview series on diabetes issues for health and medical professionals. The target audience for these programs include doctors, diabetes educators, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and Aboriginal Health Workers.
The audio series consists of ten x twenty-minute interviews on specific diabetic related topics. The aim of the series is to up-skill health professionals in diagnosing and managing diabetes through the provision of current information and explanation of evidence-based techniques.
Each program is accredited or endorsed as professional development by the Australian Diabetes Educators Association, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Royal College of Nursing Australia and the Australian Physiotherapy Association and with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association.
Each interview will soon be supported by transcripts and other resources available here.
Diabetes Audio Series
The series consists of the following programs (each 20’):
1 - Diagnosing and managing pre-diabetes
2 - Diagnosing and managing gestational diabetes mellitus
3 - Diabetes and mental health
4 - Ambulatory initiation of Insulin in type 2 diabetes
5 - Oral diabetes medicines (and algorithms in care and targets)
6 - The Diabetic Foot
7 - Managing chronic diabetes complications
8 - Supporting self management
9 - Diabetes in childhood and adolescence
10 - Treatment options and regimens in type 1 diabetes
How to Listen
The programs are freely available here to listen and download from each interview program page. You will need to be registered and logged in to listen or download the audio file.
Program Presenters
- Host: Dr Norman Swan - Presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National
Broadcast Dates
This program was first broadcast on the Foundation's satellite network on Tuesday 1 December 2009.
Funding Bodies
This audio series is produced by the Rural Health Education Foundation with the assistance of the Australian Diabetes Educators Association and Australian Diabetes Society with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Accreditation
Each interview will be accredited or endorsed as professional development by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Royal College of Nursing Australia and the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
