Type II Diabetes: Health Inequalities and Nursing Role

2 Type Diabetes

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................6

ABSTRACT
Increasing Diabetes patient especially of type II, has become one of the concerning
health issue in front of Health-care Departments of UK and entire world. It mainly
causes due to excessive weight of an individual, family history and poor lifestyles. This
would arise threat for long-term life-expectancy due to severe complications like heart
attack, stroke and more. Therefore, prevention of Type 2 diabetes and promoting self-
care management becomes a key area for health promoters, where more work needs to
be done in order to meet the standards. For this purpose, a number of educational
programs like Diabetes self-management education programmes has been run in UK,
that includes the pattern describes in the National Service Framework model. This
strategy has moved up the agenda for reducing diabetic patients rate, by setting the
targeted interventions to reduce the Type 2 diabetes in future and its threat on
individuals, their families and the NHS. For execution of such educational and
prevention programs, nursing team which includes a group of medical professionals and
nurses, contributes the major role, to provide guidance and care of diabetic patients. But
still due to less participation of people, in England and other areas of UK, expected
result of running such programs are not still obtained. So, it is recommended to NHS
and other organisations that deal in same sector, to work as multi-disciplinary team, with
a comprehensive and effective care plan, to deliver expected result.
INTRODUCTION
Public health defines as the art of promoting health and protecting wellbeing of
people, by preventing them from illness. Through the efforts of health organisation and
efforts of society, it becomes possible to prevent people from prolonged disease.
Hereby, health equality refers to a key element of social justice, where collaboration of
government, society and health agencies organisation help in developing health policies
(Rawshani and et. al., 2018). This would improve the health of public regardless of
ethnicity, social class, income and gender, by promoting healthier lifestyles. There are
two types of diabetes predominantly seen that are type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Type 1
occurs when body of an individual does not produce any insulin. While type 2 diabetes
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