South Asian Refugees Suffering From Diabetes

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Introduction
Nurses play pivotal role in public health and often serve in public health agencies,
non-profit groups and educational organizations in positions of responsibility. Preventive
health care nurses are charged with optimizing patient safety through evidence-based
guidelines while empowering patients to seek preventive services such as testing, therapy and
precautionary medications. Community health care nurses help the public stay healthy by
helping create, support and implement public health programs (Valaitis et al., 2014). Public
Health Nursing (PHN) promotes preventive care and basic health education to help societies
minimize illness, improve quality of life and make healthy lives possible for more people
(Canada.ca, 2020)
The Public Health Agency of Canada provides Canadians the power to improve their
health. The programs are focused on collaboration with others on preventing illness and
accidents, encouraging healthy physical and mental health, and providing information to
promote informed decision making. It supports scientific integrity and offers national
leadership to tackle threats to public health.
According to the CDC Foundation, public health is the science that protects and
improves the health of individuals and their communities. This work is accomplished by
encouraging safe behaviors, studying prevention of illness and injury, and identifying,
combating and responding to contagious diseases (https://www.cdcfoundation.org/, 2020)
As per the World Health Organization (WHO), "Public health refers to all concerted
interventions (whether private or public) for disease prevention, health promotion, and the
prolongation of life for the entire population. It is also essential for community health care
nurses to have a profound understanding of the concepts that can affect public health
(Euro.who.int, 2020). A wide variety of definitions can impact community health including,
but not limited to, social determinants of health, assessment, risk factor, health promotion

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programs, prevention and management. To recognize these principles in community safety,
the community nurse needs to carry out a community assessment to evaluate the population at
risk. When the illness and target population is established, the underlying factors can be
identified, and efforts can be made to help encourage and avoid more diseases. This article
reflects on defining the population at risk as well as exploring key principles of the society
that may influence the health of the population.
Selecting a Population at Risk
The target population needs to be recognized before doing the community health assessment.
In nursing practice, it is important to recognize not only those hazards that lead to the current
diagnosis but also those that have not yet caused disease but are likely to interfere. By taking
a constructive strategy, nurses may undertake preventive steps to eliminate risks before they
manifest themselves as illnesses. Epidemiology is an essential concept which the community
health nurse can choose to use when selecting a population. According to WHO,
“Epidemiology is the analysis of the transmission and determinants of medical-related
conditions and the application of this research to disease prevention and other health issues”
(Who.int, 2020). Through using analysis of the epidemiology, the nurses identified diabetes
as a chronic disease with a high prevalence rate among the South Asian immigrants in
Toronto.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, “Diabetes is a chronic disease that results
from the body's failure to manufacture and/or use insulin sufficiently that the body wants to
use as a source of energy.” Diabetes can result in serious complications and premature death,
but those with diabetes can take measures to manage the disease and reduce complications
risk.
According to researchers at the University of Toronto, people of South Asian origin who live
in Canada are three to six times more possibility than the common population to develop type