Great new interactive and educational site devised by Victoria University ACCD and Moondani Balluk highlighting diabetic education for Australian Indigenous people.
The website has been developed for Indigenous people by Indigenous people.
From the outset we wanted Indigenous people to come to the website and think deadly, this was made for us by our own mob.
The design intention was to provide information for living well for people with type 2 diabetes based on Diabetes Australia ‘ten points for healthy living’
The How’s Your Sugar? website deals with the practicalities of living well with diabetes. It uses peer-to-peer narrative through interactive video clips and simple graphics to help explain the importance of food, exercise, medication and smoking cessation on controlling diabetes.
…the doctor told me what I had to do and gave me pamphlets, but it wasn’t until I yarned up to someone who like me that I really understood what I needed to do and how I could do it…
There are some frank and useful video commentaries throughout the site which offer simple and practical advice on managing type 2 diabetes through modification of activities of daily living. There are some great examples of the video commentaries on the How’s Your Sugar Facebook page. The use of narrative is central to the website and as a cultural method of knowledge sharing in communities to share skills, history and stories.
It is our understanding that diabetes, although a medical condition, is also a social and cultural experience, and that the voice of Indigenous people with type 2 diabetes needed to be shared.
About Mike Cadogan
Very important topic and post. Your are always avante-gard Dr. C!
Here is a post from the Huffington post on the diabesity epidemic