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GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ, Pedro. Comments on the participation of primary health care in the child and the adolescent with diabetes.. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2008, vol.19, n.2. ISSN 1561-2953.

The link between primary and secondary health care is indefectible to give a comprehensive attention to the patient. Diabetes mellitus, due to the characteristics of chronic non-communicable disease and to its prevalence and incidence, is one the examples; however, in the case of type 1 diabetes affecting mainly children and adolescents, this connection is not totally availed. Some considerations are made to determine the causes affecting this relation, such as different models of health care (private, state, mixed) and the knowledge of the primary health care staff of the treatment of type 1 diabetes, among others. A brief analysis of this problem in other countries is also made. Some aspects that could improve and strengthen this link, which is very important to offer a comprehensive treatment to these patients, are considered. Our country has the suitable conditions to better it and, in fact, the steps to do so are being taken.

Palabras clave : Type 1 diabetes mellitus; primary health care; diabetes mellitus; primary health care; diabetes in the child; the adolescent.

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