Image showing blue ribbon alongside text ” WORLD DIABETES 14 November”
Diabetes can impact people across all life stages, including childhood, the reproductive years, working age and older adulthood.
As stated on the WHO website “The theme of this year’s WHO World Diabetes Day, “Diabetes across life stages,” recognizes that every person living with diabetes should have access to integrated care, supportive environments and policies that promote health, dignity and self-management. This campaign emphasizes the importance of a life-course approach to diabetes prevention, management and overall well-being.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) key messages include:
- Diabetes can affect people at every stage of life;
- From childhood to older age, diabetes prevention and care efforts must be integrated across life stages; and
- Supporting well-being and self-care empowers people with diabetes at every age.
World Diabetes Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness about diabetes as a critical global public health issue. Join us in raising awareness, spreading knowledge and creating lasting change for all affected by diabetes.”
The organization DiABETES UK gives a very simple explanation of the nature and types of diabetes mellitus on their website, as part of the current campaign to raise awareness and reduce stigma: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes
Some statistics from the International Diabetes Foundation reveal that 7 in 10 people living with diabetes are of working age, 3 in 4 people living with diabetes have experienced anxiety, depression or another mental health condition because of their diabetes, 4 in 5 people living with diabetes experienced diabetes burnout.
Here at LSHTM, researchers have long been interested in diabetes, from many angles and points of view, and in LAORS we have assembled a collection of books from our collection for a reading room display.
Printed Resources include the following:
Ekoé, J.-M, Paul Zimmet, and D. R. R Williams. The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus : An International Perspective. New York: Wiley, 2001. Print.
Gill, Geoffrey V, Jean-Claude Mbayana, and George Alberti. Diabetes in Africa. Cambridge: FSG Communications, 1997. Print.
Gomis, Ramon, and Simon R Page. The Year in Diabetes 2003. Oxford: Clinical, 2003. Print.
Lakhdar, Abdulfattah, and Geoffrey Gill. Diabetes in the Arab World. Cambridge: FSG Communications Ltd, 2005. Print.
There are some useful free e-books in the Fast Facts series (published by Karger), such as Fast Facts : Diabetes Mellitus / N. Scobie, K. Kamaras, 2014
and; Fast Facts, Diabetes type 1 in adults / R.Zaidi, P. Weston, J. Brake, 2021
Other e-books we have included in our display are as follows:
Chlup, Rudolf. Type 1 Diabetes in 2023: From Real Practice to Open Questions. IntechOpen, 2023. Web.
Pettersson, Sara. Supporting Self-Care in Migrants with Type 2 Diabetes. N.p., 2024. Web.
One of the major public health concerns of recent years is the development of type 2 diabetes in adults, due to the intake of processed foods with high sugar content. One of our display item is Identifying risk of type 2 diabetes. Epidemiologic perspectives from biomarkers to lifestyle / Margareta Norberg, a 2006 dissertation published in the Umeå University Medical Dissertations series ( we have a number of these which were sent to us by deposit as print copies ; more recent dissertations may be found on their website.
Another thesis available electronically is Bélteky, Malin. The Role of Early Childhood Infections and Gut Microbiome on Type 1 Diabetes Development. N.p., 2025. Web.
One of the journals on the topic for diabetes is Diabetes Care, available online via Discover , our library catalogue: American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care (Online). Alexandria, VA, etc: American Diabetes Association, 1978. Print.
