Broader Terms:

Scope Note:

instruction or training that encourages behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials through information about diabetes; facilitates the prevention of diabetes, frequently for those who are at risk for developing diabetes; also includes instruction or training that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge about diabetes on a personal or community basis; it also includes the training of medical personnel about diabetes for prevention or treatment programs, for this type of diabetes education postcoordinate with the appropriate health professional education term.

Term Number:

0987-0185