Diabetes prevention and management: A strategic framework for Victoria 2007 - 2010

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Introduction

The Victorian Diabetes Strategic Framework provides a way to mobilise the Victorian health system to develop, implement and evaluate coordinated and integrated approaches and services to reduce the impact of diabetes. The social, human and economic impacts of diabetes are considerable. Tackling them all will require investments in prevention, disease management and research to inform and strengthen practice in the field.

Within this context the Framework will:

• aim to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes through population-based primary prevention initiatives and intensive lifestyle interventions for people at increased risk
• aim to achieve better management and reduced complications of all types of diabetes by effective early detection and early intervention
• increase capacity in diabetes monitoring, surveillance, evaluation and research to inform effective prevention and management, and policy and practice.

The Framework sets out the imperative for effective action on diabetes and underpinning principles to guide action to achieve improved health outcomes. Eight strategic directions offer a holistic and integrated approach to the prevention and management of diabetes and include a number of capacity building areas that have system-wide relevance. It concludes with an indication of the way forward in both diabetes-specific action as well as in an integrated response to the challenges that chronic diseases pose for individuals and their families, communities and the health system.

Finding a cure for type 1 and type 2 diabetes remains a goal for medical researchers in Victoria, nationally and internationally, towards which some progress has been made. However, a cure will not reduce the need for prevention.

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