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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
At present some half a million people in Finland are living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, and around 200,000 of them are unaware they have the condition. If prevention efforts do not succeed, projections from the Diabetes association suggest there will be a million diabetics in Finland within ten years.
“At that point you can officially talk about an explosion, if we have a million people suffering from diabetes,” says Päivi Metsäniemi, head of development at the private healthcare firm Terveystalo.
Half a million additional diabetes sufferers will also cause backlogs in the system as it is currently arranged.
“Sure the diabetes sufferers will also affect others that use healthcare services, as care could deteriorate,” says Sari Koski of the Diabetes Association. “Resources simply aren’t sufficient.”
http://yle.fi/uutiset/finland_struggles_to_deal_with_diabetes_explosion/7169108
I don't think things are that much better here, with 80% of the costs going on treating complications/firefighting
“At that point you can officially talk about an explosion, if we have a million people suffering from diabetes,” says Päivi Metsäniemi, head of development at the private healthcare firm Terveystalo.
Half a million additional diabetes sufferers will also cause backlogs in the system as it is currently arranged.
“Sure the diabetes sufferers will also affect others that use healthcare services, as care could deteriorate,” says Sari Koski of the Diabetes Association. “Resources simply aren’t sufficient.”
http://yle.fi/uutiset/finland_struggles_to_deal_with_diabetes_explosion/7169108
I don't think things are that much better here, with 80% of the costs going on treating complications/firefighting