Data on Diabetes Mellitus Reported by Jinbert Lordson and Colleagues (Tuberculosis and Diabetes in India: Stakeholder Perspectives on Health System Challenges and Opportunities for Integrated Care): Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions – Diabetes Mellitus

2022 JAN 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions - Diabetes Mellitus is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Kerala, India, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “India has a dual burden of tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM). Integrated care for TB/DM is still in the early phase in the country and can be considerably enhanced by understanding and addressing the challenges identified from stakeholders’ perspectives.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, “This study explored the challenges and opportunities at individual, health system and policy level for integrated care of TB/DM comorbidities in India. We used an outlier case study approach and conducted stakeholder interviews and focus group discussions with relevant program personnel including field staff and program managers of TB and DM control programs as well as officials of partners in Indian states, Kerala and Bihar. The integrated management requires strengthening the laboratory diagnosis and drug management components of the two individual programs for TB and DM. Focused training and sensitization of healthcare workers in public and private sector across all levels is essential. A district level management unit that coordinates the two vertical programs with a horizontal integration at the primary care level is the way forward. Substantial improvement in data infrastructure is essential to improve decision-making process.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Bi-directional screening and management of TB/DM comorbidities in India requires substantial investment in human resources, infrastructure, drug availability, and data infrastructure.”

For more information on this research see: Tuberculosis and Diabetes in India: Stakeholder Perspectives on Health System Challenges and Opportunities for Integrated Care. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health can be contacted at: Atlantis Press, 29 Avenue Laumiere, Paris, 75019, France. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-epidemiology-and-global-health/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jinbert Lordson, Global Institute of Public Health, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Additional authors for this research include Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya, Salman Khan, Binod Kumar, Chitra Grace, K. Rajasekharan Nayar, Vinod Kumar, Anand M. Pillai, Lal S. Sadasivan, A. Marthanda Pillai and Abu S. Abdullah.

Publisher contact information for the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health is: Atlantis Press, 29 Avenue Laumiere, Paris, 75019, France.

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