A review of policies and implementation of DSME in South Africa. The audit involved a review of policy documents and questionnaires with 44 providers and experts. Documents were analysed with reference to the IDF International Standards for Diabetes Education. Three guidelines for Type 2 diabetes and two for chronic diseases
Background: low health literacy is associated with poor health-related knowledge, illness self-management, health service use, health, and survival, and thus addressing issues related to low health literacy has been highlighted as a pressing international priority.Objective: to explore views of a digital health promotion intervention designed to be accessible to people
Purpose: Although self-management education is a key factor in the care for diabetes patients, its implementation in developing countries is not well documented. This systematic review considers the published literature on diabetes self-management education in high and low mortality developing countries. The aim is to provide a state of the art of current practices and assess