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What should governments be doing to prevent diabetes throughout the life course?
Diabetologia 62, 1842-1853 (2019)
Health systems and governments are increasingly required to implement measures that target at-risk populations to prevent noncommunicable diseases. In this review we lay out what governments should be doing to prevent diabetes throughout the life course. The following four target groups were used to structure the specific recommendations: (1) pregnant women and young families, (2) children and adolescents, (3) working age population, and (4) the elderly. The evidence to date supports the effectiveness of some known government policy measures, such as sugar taxes and regulatory measures in the (pre-)school setting for children and adolescents. Many of these appear to be more effective if they are part of a bundle of strategies and if they are supplemented by communication strategies. Although there is a current focus on strategies that target the individual, governments can make use of evidence-based population-level prevention strategies. More research and continuous evaluation of the overall and subgroup-specific effectiveness of policy strategies using high-quality longitudinal studies are needed.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Review
Keywords
Communication Strategy ; Diabetes Prevention ; Life Course Development ; Policy ; Review
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0012-186X
e-ISSN
1432-0428
Journal
Diabetologia
Quellenangaben
Volume: 62,
Issue: 10,
Pages: 1842-1853
Publisher
Springer
Publishing Place
Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.]
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research (IPI)