The www.sanluisdiabetes.com portal is a new project that aspires to convert San Luis into an educated province in diabetes.From the tools of the SanLuita digital agenda and taking as an example the successful educational experience of the ULP, seeks to arrive with useful content and online courses to the entire population.
"Diabetes is a disease whose treatment does not work without education," says doctors Sternik and Carreño.
Diabetes is a silent disease that affects more than 50 thousand people throughout San Luis.Of that total, half unknown.Faced with this panorama, education becomes an essential resource to reach both those who were diagnosed and those who ignore their condition.With this idea as North, the innovative Portal San Luis Diabetes (www.sanluisdiabetes.com) seeks to be the link between education in diabetes and SanLuiseños.
In order to the general public, with special emphasis on diabetic patients, their environment and teachers, the website created by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, found an inspiration to enforce its purpose in the SanLuitan digital agenda.And it is that the long -term digital plan carried out by the provincial government, through the University of La Punta (ULP), shares many of its goals, including, educating and including the population in the knowledge society.
"Our goal is for San Luis to be an educated province in diabetes and we believe that from the tools offered by the digital agenda we can achieve it," explained Daniel Sternik and Nancy Carreño, the doctors doctors who coordinate the project.
And they added: “The regulatory framework, the infrastructure, the educational plans of the ULP, the possibility that each San Luis can access the Internet for free and that many of them have a netbook in their home, provide the ideal context for thepopulation learn more about this disease. ”
A disease that is treated with education
But what is diabetes?It is a chronic disease, generated by irregular or void insulin production (hormone that occurs in the pancreas).While diabetes is not cured, it can be treated.In this way, a diabetic person can lead a full, productive, happy and free life, as long as he has healthy habits.The key seems to be in education.
In this sense, the portal launched just two months ago offers material of interest (the latest advances on the treatment of the disease as well as diabetic life stories that stand out in different disciplines, among others) and self -learning courses in chargeof specialists in the field, with an educational and preventive profile.
“Diabetes is a disease whose treatment does not work without education.This is the key for the patient to lead a normal life, ”says Sternik and Carreño, who have more than 20 years of experience in this field of medicine.
