Why is diabetes a national public health problem?

Diabetes is a national/global public health problem, this non-transmissible disease with greater concurrency in people adults and obese. Ah to (who) World Health Organization, to be declared as a health problem public World.

Data given by the Pan American Health Organization, Mexico is that ranks first with a high number of deaths from diabetes in Latin America. By 2015, the number of deaths reached 98 thousand because of diabetes.

A 2013 report pointed out that in the North America region is erogo the largest budget addressing the suffering of this disease. He stated, that 12% of global health spending is earmarked for this disease (diabetes).

At just 16 years old, is duplico numbers of incidents with this disease. In 2000 it was considered that nearly 172 million people worldwide had diabetes.

Dr. Mercedes Juan López, Indian most notable health problems are overweight and diabetes.

1. Diabetes events.

9.2% of older people in Mexico have been diagnosed with diabetes, means that 9 million people suffer from this disease. It is estimated that this figure might be twice, by some people who were not diagnosed and another 24 million people could be in a State of pre diabetes.

2. Control of the disease.

Despite the effort that is put on the prevention and control of this disease, the truth is that 9 of every 10 patients people are not coming to control goals, largely due to lack of interest in the treatment. He is also calculated that every 100 Mexican pesos are spent for care of diabetes in Mexico, also 70 pesos are intended for the attention of cases with complications and only 30 pesos to controlled cases.

3. Economic expenditure.

The price for the attention of this disease, represents the 0.74% of GDP (gross domestic product), which is greater than the budget allocated to social development in perspective.

4. Lost in development and economic productivity.

Statement of Dr. Rafael Lozano, this disease is today responsible for that the country of Mexico has 14.2 healthy years of life lost, which means that in the year 2010, lost the equivalent of 1 590 years of healthy life by diabetes.

This disease is a public health problem, is one of the four primary non-communicable diseases identified by the World Health Organization, along with Cancer, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases. No country has managed to reverse the prevalence in constant rise since 2003.

In the country of Chile, this disease has become a critical public health problem with an attendance that goes around 10% in elderly people, but at the population level, only 34% achieved the therapeutic goal.

In all countries of the world, it is known that every day is increasing the incidence and prevalence of people with diabetes mellitus. As mentioned by the International Diabetes Federation, it is estimated that there are around 415 million people in the world with this disease and keep up this trend the number of people with this condition would increase to 642 million for the year 2040, sew anything pleasant.

In chile, it is estimated that 9.4% of the population of 15 years to more they are those who could be suffering from this disease, which is explained each 1 each 10 Chileans Chilean may have diabetes, which increased 3 percentage points compared with the estimate given by the national survey of health 2009 - 2010.

This estimate in its country of Chile's population is associated with a significant increase in its main risk factors which are: "67% of older people are overweight and sedentary lifestyle remains at 89%," all this by the results of the national survey of health 2009-2010.

The early detection helps reduce future complications of this disease, this is why you have to remember that the consideration of preventive medicine allows to detect people with pre-diabetes or at risk factors .

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