Case Study of How China’s Community Healthcare Service Responds to Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the world’s most common chronic diseases. From the data shown above, we can see that diabetes is a wide-spread serious illness. Hence, prevalence of diabetes imposes a substantial threat on public health well-being. Therefore, it is important for official organizations to come up with solutions to respond to diabetes. Among different type of diabetes, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the most common one and usually influenced by postnatal factors. In China, community health service centers play a major role in responding to T2D. Thus, it is important to analyze how the community health service centers are currently responding to diabetes and create guides for future works based on the analyzed results. In this article, background information on present T2D prevalence and strategies used as response solution for diabetes in China are provided. The method, main goal, and significance of the case study are also included. The main focus of this study is evaluating how China’s community health service centers are responding to T2D via SWOT analysis. Thorough evaluation on internal strengths, internal weakness, external opportunities, and external threats are conducted with the aid of health impact pyramid and levels of prevention. At the end of the article, 3 possible ways to improve how China’s community health service responds to T2D based on SWOT analysis are stated. In addition, expectations towards future research on China’s response to T2D are discussed.