Non Communicable Diseases; Focus on Type Two Diabetes

If you are teaching about health and disease in year 12/13 or to high ability year 10/11 students this article on NCD's can be a useful addition to your teaching resources.
It is a mix of factual information, stimulus material and suggested class based or homework exercises (with answers), and challenges the view that there are diseases of affluence; type 2 diabetes is a disease of lifestyle .
The article includes a detailed case study of type two diabetes in one country; Sri Lanka which drills down to specific information on the cultural geography of the disease, with detailed statistics which you will not find in a text book. The resource i fully supports health and disease topics in the following specifications: OCR, AQA, IB dip Geography.
It can be used as stimulus material for class discussion, as a jumping off point for further research and can be adapted for homework activities.