At the Bepensa Foundation, we are pleased to share that our Diabetes Education program has evolved into B Day for Your Health, a peer-to-peer education program for developing health leaders and supporting people with diabetes in communities where health services are sometimes unavailable.
The first phase of the B Day for Your Health program concluded recently with the presentation of a certificate to our health leaders, confirming that they are qualified to help more people in the communities of Kantunil, Yaxcabá, Tunkás, and Sotuta in Yucatán.
It is an action-research project that aims to help people with diabetes understand their disease, learn to live with it, make informed decisions that will help them change its course, and improve their life expectancy.
Additionally, courses and seminars are held so that people can advise others on how to take care of themselves and improve their quality of life, with the goal of enabling these individuals to become advisors to other patients in their community.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a growing global problem, which translates into increased healthcare costs. In many communities, healthcare services are unavailable or located several miles away, restricting access to necessary support.
That's why Día B was created, so that through ongoing education, this pathology can be detected and controlled in a timely and appropriate manner, which positively impacts the quality of life of patients and their families.
The program enables patients and their families to make positive behavioral changes toward a healthy lifestyle, improving their quality of life by providing them with self-care tools, social and emotional support, counseling on lifestyle changes, and learning how to communicate actively to serve as counselors for other patients.
This program is funded by the Bepensa Foundation and implemented by students of the medicine, nutrition, physiotherapy and rehabilitation courses of the School of Health Sciences of the Marist University.
