NDSS - NDSS Description - Goals

Goals

The NDSS activities will deliver:

• A national standardized database for diabetes surveillance, with long-term monitoring for diabetes-related complications through the integration of new and existing databases
• Ongoing surveillance of diabetes and its complications in each province and territory, and in the Aboriginal community
• Dissemination of national comparative information to assist in effective prevention and treatment strategies by public health departments, Aboriginal communities, non-governmental organizations and private industry
• A basis for evaluating economic/cost-related issues regarding the care, management and treatment of diabetes in Canada