Sustainable Developmental Approaches in Health Highlighting Ethnomedicinal & Non-Communicable Diseases: Diabetes

Abstract

Goyal Richa, Manoj Kumar and Mallick M Anwar

Background: Health organisations are facing problems related to the changing disease scenario (communicable to non- communicable) globally. India is also facing the widespread condition of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) along with the world and has about 88 million diabetic cases.

Aim: to develop insight among scientists and researchers about how the rapidly growing situation of diabetes and other non- communicable diseases will be controlled and cured by promoting the concept of health.

Methods: Various researches and review papers were searched in Google Scholar and evaluated its impact on diabetes disease.

Conclusion: Medical care policies in biomedical sciences (for diabetes) can control hyperglycaemic conditions but are not able to cure the disease and have strong side effects too. Also, this treatment method is costly and not able to control its rising trend. Whereas ethnomedicine (ancient medical sciences) treatment methods can control and cure the disease through healthy lifestyle practices along with medicine, they are slow in action and time-consuming. To overcome the syndemic condition of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases much work is being needed. Building of the concept of sustainable development methods to cure diabetes will be achieved by combining the concepts of biomedical sciences and ethnomedicine.

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