With the aim of increasing literacy and training patients and informal caregivers, health-promoting educational programs in diabetes can be created. The proposal from the Institute for Evidence-Based Health (ISBE), of the University of Lisbon Medical School, in the study “Governance in Health and Diabetes: Perspectives, Tools and Resources”, which is being finalized and will be handed over to health authorities, with many other recommendations.
Allowing the patient to learn about the disease and its treatment better, and to participate more in their own healthcare, thus ensuring better outcomes is one of the goals that the initiative, led by Doctor Antonio Vaz Carneiro, aims to achieve. Especially because “strengthening a health education for patients and informal caregivers can lead to improvements in care, delaying or even preventing the onset of complications,” the report asserts, so “training both with the goal of increasing diabetes literacy can mean protection for patients and increased quality of life.” care provided.”
For Antonio Vaz Carneiro, MD, head of ISBE, the specific diabetes condition can be applied to other chronic diseases. Examples include “asthma or heart disease such as chronic heart failure,” the researcher said.
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