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A new approach <strong>in</strong> public health education and risk awareness of diabetes<br />

at URL http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~diabetes<br />

Hardy Schulze<br />

University of Leipzig, Department of Internal Medic<strong>in</strong>e<br />

Germany<br />

E-Mail: shuh@server3.mediz<strong>in</strong>.uni-leipzig.de<br />

Stefan Bornste<strong>in</strong>, MD<br />

University of Leipzig, Department of Internal Medic<strong>in</strong>e<br />

Germany<br />

E-Mail: shew@server3.mediz<strong>in</strong>.uni-leipzig.de<br />

Thomas Baehr<strong>in</strong>g, PhD<br />

University of Leipzig, Department of Internal Medic<strong>in</strong>e<br />

Germany<br />

E-Mail: baet@server3.mediz<strong>in</strong>.uni-leipzig.de<br />

Diabetes is an important cl<strong>in</strong>ical and public health problem. Worldwide, at least 20% and <strong>in</strong> many<br />

communities more then 50% of diabetes is undiagnosed. Therefore a new and simple electronic questionnaire<br />

is suited to identify people at <strong>in</strong>creased risk for undiagnosed diabetes type 2 and was designed as a WWWapplication.<br />

Our CGI-script based test provides a direct feedback <strong>in</strong> form of personal risk evaluation and a<br />

statistics on number of users, on distribution of sex and risk profiles.<br />

The World Wide Web as a standardized communication platform offers an ideal base for a new approach <strong>in</strong><br />

health education. In comb<strong>in</strong>ation with <strong>in</strong>novative techniques this application allows to collect epidemiological<br />

data, perform an onl<strong>in</strong>e disease screen<strong>in</strong>g and raise the risk awareness as a major step <strong>in</strong> health education.

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