Environment and Public Health Aspects of Diabetes

Call for Papers

The prevalence of diabetes is rising rapidly and globally. The diabetes epidemic is now spreading to developing countries where rapid rises in diabetes prevalence rates are seen in both urban and rural areas. While diabetes has a large genetic component, the epidemic of diabetes is largely driven by environmental factors. These include physical inactivity, change in diet from traditional high-fiber diets to energy-dense, high-calorie, high-carbohydrate and high-fat diets. The combination of physical inactivity and dietary changes leads to obesity which is one of the major driving forces for the diabetes epidemic. However, there are newer environmental factors which are coming into play. These include the role of pollutants and psychosocial and other environmental factors. Diabetes has a huge public health impact particularly on developing countries. The epidemic of diabetes is slowly moving from a disease of old age to affect younger people; from being a disease of the rich and affluent to middle income, and now, to the low income group in developing countries; from being an urban phenomenon to one that affects the rural population. These changes have huge health economic implications for developing countries. This special issue is devoted to environmental and public health aspects of diabetes, and we invite articles related to these areas. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Role of physical inactivity in diabetes
• Role of dietary changes in diabetes
• Psychosocial aspects of diabetes
• Environmental pollutants and diabetes
• Other environmental factors and diabetes
• Public health aspects of diabetes
• Changing epidemiology of diabetes
• Epidemiology of diabetes in urban and rural settings
• Prevention of diabetes at three levels, namely, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
• Use of technology to reach the underserved areas of developing countries, for example, role of telemedicine
• Registries and population studies for diabetes
• Social inequalities, built environment, and physical activity
• Biomarkers of diabetes
• Translational research in diabetes
• Community empowerment in diabetes
• Multisectoral collaboration to prevent diabetes

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• V. Mohan, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr.Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention & Control, IDF Centre of Education, no. 6B, Conran Smith Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai 600 086, India

Guest Editors

• K. M. Venkat Narayan, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health; School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
• O. Dale Williams, Division Of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA