Is patient education program for people with diabetes mellitus cost-effective?

Diabetes is unlike other diseases, such as cholesterol and hypertension, where medication alone can often times successfully treat it, Bonsignore says. There are a lot of other components to diabetes, such as: the diabetes disease process, nutritional management, physical activity, medications, glucose monitoring, and psychosocial adjustment. Diabetes education makes people with diabetes more aware of diabetes, what it takes to treat it, and gives you the power to control it. Education of patients with diabetes is considered a fundamental aspect of diabetes care and aims to empower patients by improving knowledge and skills. Structured educational program for diabetes self-management are often multifaceted interventions providing patients with information not only about diabetes but also management issues such as diet, exercise, self-monitoring of blood glucose and medication use. So in this article i would like to answer an important question for patients,doctors and health care policy ...is patient education program for people diabetes mellitus is cost-effective or not?

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Professor Dr. Ibrahim El-Bayoumy has MBBCh (Tanta faculty of medicine-Egypt,1989), then he earned MSc.PH 1996, and MD, PhD in public health, preventive and social medicine 2003 from Tanta faculty of medicine-Egypt and McGill university-Canada.He is a full professor of public health and community medicine in Tanta faculty of medicine-Egypt.