[DOC] Health and Social Care Assignment

HEALTH
AND
SOCIAL CARE

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ABSTRACT
The global presence of diabetes is increasing at much faster rate. It has reached to
around 2.8% of the total population of the whole world. In this also the Type 2 diabetes
accounts to around 90% of the total diabetic patients. In some of the ethnic groups this
problem has got worsen. They are at higher risk to develop diabetes at any stage of the life.
This is the challenge for the health care services in UK which has a diverse ethnic population.
This problem has got worsen at new school age children. The prevalence of diabetes in some
of the ethnic groups is due to several kinds of factors. This review clearly illustrates the risk
of diabetes in some of the ethnic group being higher than that of the other groups. The global
presence of diabetes in various ethnic groups needs to be properly examined. Reason for their
less secretion of insulin has also been reviewed.

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Contents
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................. 1
Introduction............................................................................................................... 2
Literature review......................................................................................................... 3
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 6
Recommendations................................................................................................. 6
REFERENCES........................................................................................................... 7
APPENDICES........................................................................................................... 9
Introduction
In the modern lifestyle people are getting more prone to the chronic diseases. Many
researches have shown that ethnicity plays a very greater role in the development of these
diseases (Khan, et al., 2011). People belonging to any particular ethnical group are more
likely to have certain kind of chronic disease. This is due to various types of factors like their
particular lifestyle, their eating habits, believes and approach towards facing any disease. In
UK there are people that are coming from different regions of the world. Some of these