The Management Of Diabetes And Early Childhood Patients

The aim of this paper is to discuss the topic and objectives for the management of diabetes as it pertains to the Healthy People 2020 agenda. The National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2014 shows that in 2012, 29.1 or 9.3 % of the population had diabetes (as cited by the CDC, 2014). The paper will be reviewing social media websites focused on health disorders to analyze and share some of the lived experiences of patients with diabetes and from that create a strategy for empowering patients living with the disease. Finally, the paper will examine and analyze the management challenges of diabetes in adolescent and early childhood patients. 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