Cargando…
Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes
Management of diabetes represents an enormous challenge for health systems at every level of development. The latter are tested for their ability to continuously deliver high quality care to patients from the day they are diagnosed throughout their life. In this study, we review the status of diabet...
Autores principales: | , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2013
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-11 |
_version_ | 1782265976879841280 |
---|---|
author | Deerochanawong, Chaicharn Ferrario, Alessandra |
author_facet | Deerochanawong, Chaicharn Ferrario, Alessandra |
author_sort | Deerochanawong, Chaicharn |
collection | PubMed |
description | Management of diabetes represents an enormous challenge for health systems at every level of development. The latter are tested for their ability to continuously deliver high quality care to patients from the day they are diagnosed throughout their life. In this study, we review the status of diabetes management in Thailand and try to identify the key challenges the country needs to address to reduce the current (and future) medical and economic burden caused by the disease. We conducted a literature review on the burden, costs, and outcomes of diabetes in Thailand. This information was complemented by personal communication with senior officials in the Thai Ministry of Health. We identified the following priorities for the future management of diabetes in Thailand. First, increasing screening of diabetes in high risk population and promoting annual screening of diabetes complications in all diabetic patients. Second, identifying and addressing factors affecting poor treatment outcomes. Third, policy should specify clear targets and provide and use a monitoring framework to track progress. Fourth, efforts are needed to further improve data availability. Up-to-date data on the medical and economic burden of diabetes representative at the national level and at least the regional level are essential to identify needs and monitor progress towards established targets. Fifth, promotion of a healthy lifestyle for prevention of diabetes through education and quality information delivered to the public. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3623827 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2013 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-36238272013-04-12 Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes Deerochanawong, Chaicharn Ferrario, Alessandra Global Health Review Management of diabetes represents an enormous challenge for health systems at every level of development. The latter are tested for their ability to continuously deliver high quality care to patients from the day they are diagnosed throughout their life. In this study, we review the status of diabetes management in Thailand and try to identify the key challenges the country needs to address to reduce the current (and future) medical and economic burden caused by the disease. We conducted a literature review on the burden, costs, and outcomes of diabetes in Thailand. This information was complemented by personal communication with senior officials in the Thai Ministry of Health. We identified the following priorities for the future management of diabetes in Thailand. First, increasing screening of diabetes in high risk population and promoting annual screening of diabetes complications in all diabetic patients. Second, identifying and addressing factors affecting poor treatment outcomes. Third, policy should specify clear targets and provide and use a monitoring framework to track progress. Fourth, efforts are needed to further improve data availability. Up-to-date data on the medical and economic burden of diabetes representative at the national level and at least the regional level are essential to identify needs and monitor progress towards established targets. Fifth, promotion of a healthy lifestyle for prevention of diabetes through education and quality information delivered to the public. BioMed Central 2013-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3623827/ /pubmed/23497447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-11 Text en Copyright © 2013 Deerochanawong and Ferrario; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Deerochanawong, Chaicharn Ferrario, Alessandra Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title | Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title_full | Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title_fullStr | Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title_full_unstemmed | Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title_short | Diabetes management in Thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
title_sort | diabetes management in thailand: a literature review of the burden, costs, and outcomes |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-11 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT deerochanawongchaicharn diabetesmanagementinthailandaliteraturereviewoftheburdencostsandoutcomes AT ferrarioalessandra diabetesmanagementinthailandaliteraturereviewoftheburdencostsandoutcomes |