Diabetes and eHealth

Kingshuk Pal, Research Unit of Primary Care and Population Health, London,UK

Kingshuk is a recently qualified GP who has recently joined PCPH on a two year Clinical Associate post in Academic Primary Care.

Kingshuk Pal is undertaking research in e-Health (particular interest internet interventions for diabetes).

PCPH has two main strategic aims:

To develop and deliver high quality programmes of undergraduate and postgraduate education within the broad scope of primary care and population health.
To undertake a programme of internationally competitive, multi-disciplinary research addressing the management and prevention of disease in individuals and populations in areas of priority to the health of the community.

Pal, K., Eastwood, S., Michie, S., Farmer, A. J., Barnard, M. L., Peacock, R., Murray, E. (2010). Computer-based diabetes self-management interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. (10) UK: doi:10.1002/14651858.CD008776. Publisher URL