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What you need to know about diabetes in other languages

Diabetes: What You Need To Know In a new move to help non-English speaking communities understand diabetes, Diabetes Australia-NSW has produced a series of books containing comprehensive, easy-to-understand information that is available in five different languages.

The Diabetes: What You Need to Know series is available in Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek and Italian versions and covers a wide range of diabetes-related topics, such as risk factors, prevention, complications and management. All books contain an English translation.

The aim of the books is to educate non-English speaking people about the best ways of managing diabetes. With type 2 diabetes becoming an epidemic and people of certain ethnic backgrounds being at higher risk of the disease, these books come at a crucial time.

One of the people who worked on the books was Diabetes Australia-NSW Program Development Manager and Diabetes Educator, Kristen Hazelwood.

“The big issue is that diabetes is a self-managed disease. Unless a person understands this, they will never be able to manage it and their family won’t be able to help in its management,” says Ms Hazelwood.

“Adopting a healthy eating plan and doing regular exercise are the best ways to avoid or manage diabetes. We believe having a book written in their own language will help these communities understand this.”

The Diabetes: What You Need to Know books are available for $10 each plus postage. Money raised from the books will go to producing further books in more languages.

Click to download an order form.