What is a PHN? - Association of Public Health Nurses

NURSING PUBLIC HEALTH
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INTRODUCTION
 Type 2 diabetes tends to impact racial and
cultural subgroups at an disturbing rate in the
United States and in several nations across the
world (Sattar & Gill, 2015).
 The value of healthcare offered to these diverse
minority sections if typically suboptimal
subsequent to severe patient related
consequences as associated with the ones in
mainstreamed populaces.

AWARENESS OF WAYS IN WHICH CULTURE IMPACTS
HEALTH CONDITIONS
 Awareness of the essentiality for
cultural understanding through web-
based programs as well as smartphone
applications is the primary step in the
direction of providing sensitive as well
as competent diabetes education
(Sapkota et al., 2015).
 It is greater than a limited knowledge of
cultural standards, ideologies, customs,
language as well as actions.

UNDERSTANDING THE SCOPE OF DIABETES
 Diabetes tends to occur at
all age groups as well as in
all cultural groups. It has
been found in
fundamentally all parts of
the world.
 However, from a universal
perspective, diabetes has
turned into a widespread
whereby over 150 million of
adult population across the
world suffer from, diabetes
(Abubakari et al., 2016).

RISK FACTORS FOR ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULACES
 It is important that non-White populaces not only faces
augmented occurrence of Type 2 diabetes but further suffer from
more recurrent difficulties in addition to superior disease
severity.
 Studies of elder adults suffering from diabetes have explained
that Mexican Americans as well as African Americans face an
inordinate problem from diabetes in comparison to the aged non-
Hispanic Whites (López et al., 2016).

CONTINUATION
 Racial and ethnic minorities have
deprived level of health care as
evaluated to primary subgroups.
 However, as per the Institute of
Medicine in the US , the
occurrence of important
healthcare differences amongst
racial as well as ethnic subgroups
along with the non-Hispanic white
residents (Stojanovska,
Naemiratch & Apostolopoulos,
2017)