en Endocrinology Endocrinology Policy Brief Policy Brief <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="font-style:italic"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">Background: </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">Diabetes and its complications threaten the life of communities at global, national, and sub-national levels. Following the United Nations&#39; call to action and develop a global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs by The World Health Organization (WHO), all countries have a commitment to halt the rise in diabetes prevalence across the world. But the different situations of disease and risk factors, different priorities, and the context of the health care systems moved the countries to develop adapted targets and action plans.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">On the same ground, Iran established a national authority construction as the Diabetes Sub-committee which is part of the Iranian Non-Communicable Diseases Committee (INCDC) and incorporated a multi-sectoral mechanism to develop the national service framework for diabetes. Accordingly, this paper is aiming at sharing Iran&rsquo;s experience regarding the policy implications for diabetes prevention and control. Exchange this experience could be beneficiary to other countries to lead a systematic action to prevent disability and mortality due to diabetes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Diabetes, Policy, Iran 1392 1395 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-7242-9&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Niloofar Peykari niloofarpeykari@gmail.com 200319475328460075788 200319475328460075788 No Deputy for Education, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Fatemeh Ghaemi Ghaemifa77@gmail.com 200319475328460075789 200319475328460075789 No Deputy for Currative Affaire, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Ensieh Nasli e-naslie@sina.tums.ac.ir 200319475328460075790 200319475328460075790 No Endocrinology & Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Alireza Mahdavi 200319475328460075791 200319475328460075791 No Deputy for Health, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Elham Yousefi 200319475328460075792 200319475328460075792 No Deputy for Health, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Hadi Monji 200319475328460075793 200319475328460075793 No Endocrinology & Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mahdi Shadnoush niloofarpeykari@gmail.com 200319475328460075794 200319475328460075794 No Deputy for Currative Affaire, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Farshad Farzadfar f-farzadfar@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460075795 200319475328460075795 No Endocrinology & Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Bagher Larijani larijanib@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460075796 200319475328460075796 Yes Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, & Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, & The Iranian Non-communicable Diseases Committee (INCDC), Tehran, Iran