Prevention and control of diabetes in Pacific people

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7412, 2003, Pages 437-439

  Foliaki, Sunia ^a   Pearce, Neil ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0042324118     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7412.437     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Prior I, Beaglehole R, Flora D, Salmond C. The relationships of diabetes, blood lipids, and uric acid levels in Polynesians. Adv Metab Disord 1978;9:241-61.
2. McCarty DJ, Zimmet P. Pacific Island Populations. In: Ekoe J-M, Zimmet P, Williams R. eds. The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus. An international perspectives. Chichester: Wiley, 2001:239-45.
3. Ministry of Health. Annual report. Nuku'alofa, Tonga: Ministry of Health 1999.
4. Bennet PH, Taylor R, Uili R, Zimmet P. Epidemiological studies of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Polynesians from Rarotonga (Cook Islands) and Niue. Noumea: South Pacific Commission, 1984. (Technical paper No 185.)
5. Simmons D, Shaw L, Kenealy T, Scott D, Scragg R. Ethnic differences in diabetes knowledge and education: the South Auckland Diabetes Survey. NZ Med J 1994;107:197-200.
6. Wilson P, Simmons D. The development of community oriented recommendations for diabetes care in South Auckland. NZ Med J 1994;107:456-9.
7. Simmons D, Kenealy T, Scott DJ. Implementing the South Auckland diabetes plan: barriers and lessons. NZ Med J 2000;113:364-6.
8. Pinkney J. Prevention and cure of type 9 diabetes: weight loss is the key to controlling diabetes epidemic. BMJ 2002;325:232-3.
9. Tuomilehto J, Lindstrom J Eriksson JG, Valle TT, Hamalainen H, Ilanne-Parikka P, et al. Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in life-style among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance. N Engl J Med 2001;344:1343-50.
10. Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group Reduction of the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002;346:1190-6.
11. Griffin JA, Gilliland SS, Perez G, Upson D, Carter JS. Challenges to participating in a lifestyle intervention program: the Native American diabetes project. Diabetes Educator 2000;26:681-9.
12. Gilliland SS, Carter JS, Perez GE, Feathers FT, Kenui CK, Mau MK. Recommendations for development and adaptation of culturally competent community health interventions in minority populations with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Spectrum 1998;11:166-74.
13. Mau MK, Glanz K, Severino R, Grove JS, Johnson B, Curb JD. Mediators of lifestyle behavior change in native Hawaiians. Diabetes Care 2001;24:1770-5.
14. Pearce N. Traditional epidemiology, modern epidemiology, and public health. Am J Public Health 1996;86:678-83.
15. Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Exporting failure? Coronary heart disease and stroke in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:201-5.
16. Rose G. The strategy of preventive medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
17. Zimmet P. Globalisation. Coca-colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be averted? J Int Med 2000;247:301-10.
18. McKinlay J, Marceau L. US public health and the 21st century: diabetes mellitus. Lancet 2000;356:757-61.
19. Tunidau-Schultz J. Challenges for Pacific nutritionists. Pacific Health Dialogue 1997;4:161-5.
20. Zimmet P, de Courten M, Hodge AM, Tuomilehto J. Epidemiology, evidence for prevention: type 2 diabetes. In: Ekoe J-M, Zimmet P, Williams R, eds. The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus: an international perspective. Chichester: Wiley, 2001:41-50.