About this item

Issue date:
2 September 2007
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
Manatū Hauora - Ministry of Health
Document date:
2 September 2007
Type:
Report
Topic:
Diseases & conditions
Copyright status:

Copyright Held by Non-Crown Party

ISBN:
978-0-478-19190-5 (print), 978-0-478-19191-2 (online)

Summary

Understanding the descriptive epidemiology of type 2 diabetes is useful for planning health promotion and disease prevention interventions.

 

This report presents estimates for the incidence, prevalence and mortality of known (diagnosed) type 2 diabetes by age and sex, based on a multistate lifetable model.

 

The input data is drawn from the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey and the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, among other sources.

 

The epidemiological parameters are then projected out to 2011 under a variety of scenarios.

This work updates an earlier model built by the Ministry in 2002.