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The global response to diabetes: action or apathy?
Author(s) -
Colagiuri Ruth,
Dain Katie,
Moylan Judi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja14.01135
Subject(s) - apathy , action (physics) , development economics , economic growth , medicine , diabetes mellitus , developing country , productivity , political science , psychiatry , economics , physics , cognition , quantum mechanics , endocrinology
Summary Diabetes and related non‐communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 60% of the world's annual deaths, untold personal suffering, and an economically crippling burden of lost productivity. Despite the body of evidence and various calls to action, historically, the global response has bordered on apathy. Although diabetes and related NCDs remain disproportionately underfunded, the United Nations now recognises them as a major challenge to human and economic development, resulting in an action‐oriented policy, frameworks and monitoring requirements that are being driven by the UN and the World Health Organization. Australia is at the forefront of many of these initiatives and is currently developing a new national diabetes strategy.