World Diabetes Day
November 14, 2019

November 14 is World Diabetes Day (WDD). This year’s theme is Diabetes: Protect Your Family.

Did you know?

• Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death particularly in low-and-middle income countries.¹
• The number of people globally with diabetes continues to rise and prevalence in adults has almost doubled.¹
• Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, amputation, heart disease, kidney failure and early death.¹
• Approximately 1.6 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes in 2016.¹
• Diabetes cost at least $727 billion in health expenditure in 2017.²

Learn how employers can better support employees with diabetes, through:

• Implementing virtual solutions for disease management,
• Ensuring access to affordable insulin and
• Providing well-being campaigns that promote physical activity, tobacco cessation, and healthy diets.

Employee Resources

Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment (available in 12 languages)

Communications Resources

Additional Employer Resources

• World Diabetes Day 2019 blog
• World Diabetes Day Toolkit
• Well-being in Mexico: Focus on Mental Health and Diabetes
• International Diabetes Federation’s Diabetes Atlas
• WHO urges global action to curtail consumption and health impacts of sugary drinks
• Evidence-Based Approaches to Diabetes Prevention
• How Technology and the Human Touch Cured Traditional Disease Management: Clinical and Financial Impact of Livongo
• Reversing Diabetes: How Jones Lang LaSalle is Tacking the Rx Cost Crisis
• Identifying the unaware and at risk: Understanding the Full Burden of Diabetes

Also available in Spanish and French

• Here is the larger YouTube video library of World Diabetes Day
• These resources are available in English, Spanish and French:
  • Infographics
  • Posters
  • Videos
• World Health Organization: The Many Faces of Diabetes
• Share what your company is doing on the World Diabetes Day website.

For the full listing of United Nations-sponsored observances, please visit its website. For sample emails about past and future health observances visit our website.

1. World Health Organization. Diabetes Fact Sheet. October 30, 2018. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes
2. International Diabetes Foundation. World Diabetes Day Toolkit. 2019. https://worlddiabetesday.org/resources/wdd-2019/toolkit/