TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Josie AU - Scriven,Angela TI - Diabetes T2 - Public health mini-guides SN - 9780702046377 (pbk.) : U1 - 614.5'9462 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Churchill Livingstone KW - Diabetes KW - Health and Fitness KW - eflch KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc N1 - Specialized N2 - Diabetes is a worldwide public health concern and is being referred to as the 'global epidemic of diabetes', the 'silent epidemic' and the 'diabetes timebomb'. The increasing incidence of diabetes, the heavy burden of morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes, and its spiralling healthcare costs, underpin the importance of a public health approach to the prevention and management of diabetes. This mini-guide explores in more detail how public health practice might address some of these issues ER -