Evaluation of the assessment of diabetic patients and the diabetology education at the Servicio Andalud de Salud in Malaga (Spain)

Abstract

Every time nº of diabetic patients in the world is greater, according to estimations of the O.M.S. we have 180 million people in the world who suffer it. In Spain we have around a 6.5% of the affected population. The diabetic foot is one of the complications that most frequently undergo the diabetic patients. The angiopathy and neuropathy that the diabetes entails, are more accusing in the distad zones of our special body in the foot. The increase of the prevalence of diabetics causes that an increase in nº of cases of diabetic foot also exists. In Andalusia one settled down in the integral Plan of Diabetes in Andalusia 2003-2007 and as it indicates the own plan: “the diabetic foot is fundamental a prevention problem”. In the present work we expose, as it is carried out the exploration of the diabetic foot and the diabetes education within the medicine consultations of the S.A.S. in the province of Malaga. We have observed that exists deficiencies in the material and human resources as much. Finally we want to insist on the necessity of the inclusion of the podiatry in the programs of health of the diabetic foot. The diabetic foot is a serious, complex pathology, of a highest economic and human cost, and that requires a boarding to multidiscipline.