Diabetes day

• العربية • Արեւմտահայերէն • Asturianu • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Català • Čeština • Dansk • Deutsch • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Français • ગુજરાતી • 한국어 • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Latina • Magyar • മലയാളം • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • မြန်မာဘာသာ • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • ଓଡ଼ିଆ • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • සිංහල • Српски / srpski • Svenska • தமிழ் • తెలుగు • ไทย • Türkçe • Українська • اردو • Tiếng Việt • 中文 World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991 by the By 2016, World Diabetes Day was being commemorated by over 230 IDF member associations in more than 160 countries and Themes [ ] Themes of previous World Diabetes Day campaigns have focused on different factors that influence the risk of diabetes and its complications: • 2013: Protect our Future: Diabetes • 2014: Go Blue for • 2015: Healthy Eating. • 2016: Eyes on Diabetes. • 2017: Women and diabetes – our right to a healthy future. • 2018–2019: The Family and Diabetes – diabetes concerns every family. • 2020: The Nurse and Diabetes. [ citation needed] • 2021–2023: Access to Diabetes Care. See also [ ] • • • References [ ] • International DiabetesFederation. • ^ a b World Diabetes Day. International Diabetes Federation . Retrieved 4 November 2010. • Portsmouth Daily Times. 7 November 2017 . Retrieved 14 November 2017. • World Health Organization. • Diabetes.co.uk. • badhaai.com. 25 September 2017. • www.idf.org. External links [ ] • •

World Diabetes Day World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225. It is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. WDD is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the public and political spotlight. The World Diabetes Day campaign aims to be the: • Platform to promote IDF advocacy efforts throughout the year. • Global driver to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue The campaign is represented by a Every year, the World Diabetes Day campaign focuses on a dedicated theme that runs for one or more years. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is Access to Diabetes Care.

World Diabetes Day is every year on November 14, first created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Foundation and the World Health Organization. Diabetes is a chronic disease where the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin if any at all. It also leads to serious health conditions and, is why we take this day to spread awareness and education. History of World Diabetes Day Diabetes is considered to have been around 1550 BC. The successful extraction and injection of insulin into humans was discovered in 1922. So, comparatively, our understanding of diabetes is quite new compared to its long, arduous march through history. The difference between type two and type one started around 1850, where medical professionals at the time believed that they knew enough of the difference between the two to warrant two categories. Since then, type II diabetes has ballooned to 90% of the those affected, with an estimated $425 million individuals affected worldwide. This alarming rise is one of the reasons the WHO and IDF wanted to create World Diabetes Day — to help spread awareness. Having to manage blood sugar levels on a daily basis is a time-consuming and costly endeavor, as the economic cost of diabetes globally is around $727 billion (USD) and in the US alone it costs almost a third of that, at $245 billion. The costliness and its prevention create even more reason for us to spread awareness of the disease, and also celebrate the birth of the man who helped bring insulin into the...