XI. STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING DIABETES CARE D iabetes is a chronic illness that requires continuing medical care and patient self-management education to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Diabetes care is complex and requires that many issues, beyond glycemic control, be addressed. A large body of evidence exists that supports a range of interventions to improve diabetes outcomes. These standards of care are intended to provide clinicians, patients, researchers, payors, and other interested individuals with the components of diabetes care, treatment goals, and tools to evaluate the quality of care. While individual preferences, comorbidities, and other patient factors may require modification of goals, targets that are desirable for most patients with diabetes are provided. These standards are not intended to preclude more extensive evaluation and management of the patient by other specialists as needed. For more detailed information, refer to Bode (Ed.): Medical Management of Type 1 Diabetes (1), Burant (Ed): Medical Management of Type 2 Diabetes (2), and Klingensmith (Ed): Intensive Diabetes Management (3). The recommendations included are diagnostic and therapeutic actions that are known or believed to favorably affect health outcomes of patients with diabetes. A grading system (Table 1), developed by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and modeled after existing methods, was utilized to clarify and codify the evidence that forms the basis for the recommendations. The level of evidence that supports each recommendation is listed after each recommendation using the letters A, B, C, or E.

Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes

From the Publisher: 
A Question of Identity 
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." 
Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. 
This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/journals/psycann/1976-12-6-12/{806b8887-c02e-40c8-a228-57f1cdb2bdba}/the-stress-of-life.pdf

The stress of life

The debate on migration and development has swung back and forth like a pendulum, from developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to neo-Marxist pessimism over the 1970s and 1980s, towards more optimistic views in the 1990s and 2000s. This paper argues how such discursive shifts in the migration and development debate should be primarily seen as part of more general paradigm shifts in social and development theory. However, the classical opposition between pessimistic and optimistic views is challenged by empirical evidence pointing to the heterogeneity of migration impacts. By integrating and amending insights from the new economics of labor migration, livelihood perspectives in development studies and transnational perspectives in migration studies – which share several though as yet unobserved conceptual parallels – this paper elaborates the contours of a conceptual framework that simultaneously integrates agency and structure perspectives and is therefore able to account for the heterogeneous nature of migration-development interactions. The resulting perspective reveals the naivety of recent views celebrating migration as self-help development “from below”. These views are largely ideologically driven and shift the attention away from structural constraints and the vital role of states in shaping favorable conditions for positive development impacts of migration to occur.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00804.x

Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective

Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the Third World

Community, economy and social change in Oaxaca, Mexico: rural life and cooperative logic in the global economy

Traditional Papermaklng and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico. A. R. Sandstrom and P.E.Sandstrom Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. 336 pp. $24.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-8061-1972-1

Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico

Thinking, Rethinking, and Framing the Discussion of Migration

Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey

In this paper we explore the rise of Turkey as a destination for new migrants including the children of Turks and Kurds who emigrated to Europe and Germany over the last five decades. An environment of social, economic and human insecurity dominated migration from Turkey to Europe and in particular Germany over the last five decades; and today, shifts in Turkish society, economy and security are attracting migrants to the country. Ethnic conflicts were one key factor driving migration in the past and as we note, they continue to moderate the relationship between socio-economic development and emigration rates for Kurdish movers in the present. Nevertheless, we argue that the growth of the Turkish economy and increasing social freedoms support an increase in immigration to Turkey. Immigration to Turkey includes returnees as well as second and third generation Turks from Germany among other places. [IN TURKISH] Bu makalede Turkiye’nin, son 50 yil icinde Avrupa’ya ve ozellikle Almanya’ya goc etmis Turk ve Kurt gocmenlerin cocuklari da dahil olmak uzere yeni gocmenler icin bir destinasyon haline gelisini irdeliyoruz. Sosyal, ekonomik ve insani bir guvensizlik ortaminin varligi, son 50 yildaki Turkiye’den Avrupa’ya ve ozellikle Almanya’ya goc uzerinde etkili olmustur. Bugun ise Turk toplumundaki, ekonomisindeki ve guvenligindeki degisimler ulkeye gocmen cekmektedir. Gecmiste, etnik catismalar gocu belirleyen faktorlerden biriydi ve bunlar bugun de sosyo-ekonomik kalkinma ve Kurt gocmenlerin gocu arasindaki iliskiyi etkilemektedir. Ancak, Turkiye ekonomisinin buyumesi ve sosyal ozgurluklerin artisi Turkiye’ye gocu desteklemektedir. Turkiye’ye goc, Almanya ve diuer ulkelerden geri donus gocuyle birlikte ikinci ve ucuncu kusak Turklerin gocunu de kapsamakatadir.

Türk göç kültürü: Türkiye ile Almanya arasında göç hareketleri, sosyo-ekonomik kalkınma ve çatışma - Turkish culture of migration: Flows between Turkey and Germany, socio-economic development and conflict

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Papers

Community, economy and social change in Oaxaca, Mexico: rural life and cooperative logic in the global economy

Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico

Thinking, Rethinking, and Framing the Discussion of Migration

Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey

Türk göç kültürü: Türkiye ile Almanya arasında göç hareketleri, sosyo-ekonomik kalkınma ve çatışma - Turkish culture of migration: Flows between Turkey and Germany, socio-economic development and conflict