World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by the World Health Organization y la International Diabetes Federation In response to growing concern about the growing health threat posed by this disease, it is celebrated annually on November 14, the anniversary of the birth of Sir Frederick Banting, who discovered insulin with Charles Best in 1922.
This day represents the world's largest diabetes awareness campaign, reaching a global audience of over one billion people in 165 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of utmost importance to the world of diabetes and keeps the condition in the public and political spotlight. This day represents another step in the contribution of the Health and Wellness Goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which calls for ensuring healthy lives for all at all ages.
B Day for your health
Access to diabetes education is the theme for World Diabetes Day 2022. At the Bepensa Foundation, concerned about the health and well-being of the communities where we operate, we created the B Day for Your Health program. Our Diabetes Education program has evolved to become B Day for Your Health, a peer-to-peer education program for developing health leaders, supporting people with diabetes in communities where health services are sometimes unavailable.
This is an action-research project that aims to help people with diabetes understand their disease, learn to live with it, and make informed decisions that will allow them to change its course and improve their life expectancy. Additionally, courses and seminars are offered 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.
Día B was created to enable ongoing education to achieve early detection and management of this condition. 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.
