NDEP News & Notes
March 2007
Volume 3, Issue 3
In this Issue:
March is National Nutrition Month®
NDEP is promoting a new feature article during National Nutrition Month® to emphasize losing weight to lower the risk for type 2 diabetes. The article includes specific action steps that emphasize taking small steps to reach and maintain a healthy weight, as well as healthy eating tips. Feel free to use the article in your own publication, or use the information to write your own article. Also, don't forget that American Diabetes Alert Day is March 27!
March is a great time to promote NDEP’s Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent type 2 Diabetes campaign and Your GAME PLAN to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Information for Patients brochure. The newly revised GAME PLAN includes the latest evidence-based information about the risk of developing diabetes and how to implement a program to prevent or delay the onset of the disease by eating healthy and being more physically active. It includes specific action steps on how to set goals, track progress, implement a walking program, find additional resources, and monitor and record food and drink intake and physical activity with the use of a tracker and fat and calorie counter.
Updated! Diabetes Numbers At-a-Glance and It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes
Two NDEP publications,Diabetes Numbers At-a-Glance and It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes, have recently been updated and redesigned.
Designed for health care professionals, the updated 2007 Diabetes Numbers At-a-Glance reference card is a convenient, pocket-sized guide to help diagnose and treat pre-diabetes and diabetes. Health care professionals can use the card and
easily look up recommendations from the American Diabetes
Association for diagnosing and managing patients with diabetes. The guide also provides treatment goals by giving a range of healthy blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol numbers for patients with diabetes, as well as a diabetes management schedule.
The updated It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes. A Lifetime of Small Steps for a Healthy Family. tip sheet
emphasizes that women with a history of gestational diabetes are at an increased risk for diabetes. Their children are also at increased risk for obesity and diabetes in childhood and adolescence, compared to other children. The tip sheet spreads the news that it is possible to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and provides action steps to help women with a history of gestational diabetes prevent or delay diabetes and help their children lower their risk for the disease.
To order or download either free publication, visit NDEP’s Publications Catalog or call 1-800-438-5383.
Partners Celebrate NDEP’s 10th Anniversary at the 2007 Partnership Network Meeting
More than 250 NDEP partners gathered on Tuesday, February 27, in Decatur, Georgia for the 2007 Partnership Network Meeting. NDEP launched its 10th anniversary using the theme “Working Together: NDEP Celebrates a Decade of Partnership.” The meeting showcased effective partner programs that have strengthened educational outreach to those with diabetes, those at risk for diabetes, health care professionals, and business leaders, among others.
This year, techniques for effectively using partnerships and collaborations to promote NDEP’s messages, products, and campaigns were highlighted during interactive sessions. Partners were encouraged to not only present on their success with promoting NDEP, but also to share with other partners how they were able to effectively promote NDEP. For example, Gale Marshall, Vice Chair of the American Indian and Alaska Native Work Group, and John Riley, Davenport High School student, pictured here with NDEP Directors Joanne Gallivan and Jane Kelly, presented on how John’s high school successfully adapted NDEP's Move It! kit, created local and national partnerships, and received grants to improve the diabetes awareness program at his school.
Congratulations to NDEP's partners and the Partnership Network Meeting Planning Committee for a successful meeting!
2007 CDC Diabetes Conference
The CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation will convene its annual diabetes conference April 30–May 3 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will bring together approximately 600 participants from a wide range of local, state, federal, and territorial governmental agencies and private-sector partners to discuss diabetes issues. Conference goals include exploring science, policy, education, program planning, implementation, and evaluation to enhance public health approaches and strategies to prevent and control diabetes; increasing knowledge and awareness of successful, cost-effective public and private diabetes programs; presenting innovative strategies to increase awareness of diabetes and how to prevent its complications; and providing opportunities for skill-building, information-sharing, and networking.
For more information, or to register for the meeting, click here.
Mark Your Calendars: NDEP Promotions
Watch each issue of News & Notes for NDEP promotional tools that are ready for you to personalize, customize, and distribute.
By using our promotional tools, everybody wins. Your community newspaper receives a localized story with important health information for its readers, your organization receives good publicity, and you help NDEP continue to be the nation’s No. 1 resource for free information and materials on diabetes control and prevention. Each issue of News & Notes features tools that tie into the following month’s promotions.
April is the time to recognize Foot Health Awareness Month, National Minority Health Month, and National Public Health Week:
May highlights Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Older Americans Month, and National Women’s Health Week. NDEP will promote its prevention messages through a feature article promoting NDEP’s extensive Asian-language materials.
Check the April issue of News & Notes for more tools you can use to join in future promotion efforts.
NDEP’s Partner Activities
Website
Did you know that NDEP has a fourth website devoted to information on our partners and networking? Learn more about what NDEP partners are doing in diabetes prevention and control by visiting NDEP's Spotlight On Partner Activities website! Read the new spotlight on National Alliance for Hispanic Health and activities of the Puerto Rico Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. And don't forget NDEP's other websites, DiabetesAtWork and BetterDiabetesCare, in addition to the NDEP homepage.
DPCP Spotlight: Colorado’s Eye Awareness Campaign
The Colorado Diabetes Prevention and Control Program has developed an Eye Awareness Campaign to help save the sight of people with diabetes. The campaign is designed to use grassroots outreach tactics, familiar locations, and established contacts to spread the word about the importance of getting yearly retinal eye exams. It also promotes personal relationships to help encourage behaviors of scheduling and keeping an eye exam appointment. To learn more about the campaign and to download or order your own customizable campaign materials in both English and Spanish, visit the campaign website. Congratulations to the Colorado DPCP for a great campaign!
Kudos and Congratulations
Tips for Kids: Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes has received a Silver Award from the 20th Annual International Mercury Excellence Awards. These awards honor outstanding achievement in professional communications. This year, more than 900 entries were received from 16 countries.
Thanks to everyone who helped create this award-winning tool!
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Launches Initiative to Improve Influenza Vaccination Rates in Adults and Children with Diabetes
More than 15 of the nation’s leading medical and public health organizations, including the National Diabetes Education Program, support a Call to Action issued by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) to improve alarmingly low influenza vaccination rates in adults and children with diabetes, the fifth deadliest disease in the U.S.
“Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates in Adults and Children with Diabetes: Identifying and Overcoming Immunization Barriers in this High-Risk Population” is the first step of a new NFID initiative designed to highlight the severity of influenza in this at-risk population and the benefits of annual vaccination for persons with diabetes and their close contacts. The report also highlights various strategies for practices and institutions that provide influenza vaccine, as well as for those that do not provide vaccine services yet can refer patients to be immunized elsewhere.
NFID is also developing a more comprehensive monograph that will further describe key strategies to serve as national models for improving immunization rates in adults and children with diabetes.
Talk to Us!
We want you to use this e-newsletter to share your experiences and success stories with NDEP. How have you and your organization promoted NDEP messages and materials? Share your ideas and success stories with us and we will share them with our readers. Email us, or call 301-496-3583.
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NDEP News & Notes is the monthly e-newsletter of the National Diabetes Education Program. These monthly updates are designed to keep you informed about NDEP activities and help you identify opportunities to incorporate our messages, products, and activities into your programs. Please keep your members and partners updated by forwarding this e-newsletter to them as well. Your help continues to be an invaluable part of our success. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact our directors, Joanne Gallivan (NIH) at 301-496-6110 or Joanne_Gallivan@nih.gov, or Jane Kelly (CDC) at 770-488-5196 or JKelly@cdc.gov.
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