Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13103439
Keywords
policy impact; NOURISHING food policy database; MOVING physical activity policy database; correlation analysis; diabetes mellitus burden; European Union
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- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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The study examined the impact of diabetes policies on disease prevalence in EU member states, finding variations in types and numbers of policies implemented and a weak correlation between policy actions and disease prevalence. Despite the impact of policies in reducing diabetes prevalence, the increasing burden of the disease could not be reversed, emphasizing the need for a network of preventive policies.
Since healthy eating and physically active lifestyles can reduce diabetes mellitus (DM) risk, these are often addressed by population-based interventions aiming to prevent DM. Our study examined the impact of nutritional and physical activity policies, national diabetes plans and national diabetes registers contribute to lower prevalence of DM in individuals in the member states of the European Union (EU), taking into account the demographic and socioeconomic status as well as lifestyle choices. Datasets on policy actions, plans and registers were retrieved from the World Cancer Research Fund International's NOURISHING and MOVING policy databases and the European Coalition for Diabetes report. Individual-based data on DM, socioeconomic status and healthy behavior indicators were obtained via the European Health Interview Survey, 2014. Our results showed variation in types and numbers of implemented policies within the member states, additionally, the higher number of these actions were not associated with lower DM prevalence. Only weak correlation between the prevalence of DM and preventive policies was found. Thus, undoubtedly policies have an impact on reducing the prevalence of DM, its increasing burden could not be reversed which underlines the need for applying a network of preventive policies.
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