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The National Alliance for Hispanic Health* (the Alliance) is the oldest and largest network of health and human service providers serving Hispanics. Their members, who are comprised of community-based organizations, provider organizations, government, national organizations, universities and for-profit corporations, provide services to more than 14 million Hispanic health consumers throughout the United States. Dedicated to community-based solutions, they launched the Juntos Contra la Diabetes (JCD) (United Against Diabetes) program to
Along with the JCD community partners, Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition (Illinois), Concilio Latino de Salud (Arizona); Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers (Miami), Multicultural Area Health Education Center (Los Angeles) and the Puerto Rican Family Institute (New York) produced the JCD Living with Diabetes/Viviendo con la diabetes curriculum, a culturally-proficient bilingual diabetes self-management curriculum for providers to use with Hispanic consumers at the local level.
Within this new diabetes curriculum, the Alliance wanted to include a list of the most effective existing stand-alone consumer diabetes products for Hispanics. While they had been using NDEP products for some time with their activities, the Alliance needed to find a way to come to a consensus on the best products currently available. Ideally, the selected products would be based on recommendations from diabetes health care providers and consumers who represented a variety of Hispanic subgroups and geographic regions around the United States.
To create this list of reviewed and recommended diabetes products, the Alliance created a Diabetes Products Review Panel consisting of seven Hispanic diabetes health professionals working with Hispanic consumers from around the country, as well as representatives from the five JCD community partners. This panel included diabetes professionals and consumers from Miami, FL, Los Angeles, CA, Detroit, MI, San Antonio, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Las Cruces, NM, Chicago, IL, and San Juan, PR.
The Alliance provided the review panel with a group of more than 20 existing government and non-government products to consider. These consumer products covered a variety of diabetes prevention, diabetes management and diabetes complication topics. Panel reviewers rated the level of appropriateness of each material based on the following criteria: language level; cultural and linguistic proficiency; balance of graphics versus text; presence of additional resources; quality and presence of guidance for action; aesthetic appearance; representation of Hispanics in photos/images; and degree of commercialism. Reviewers ranked each material within a range from extremely appropriate to extremely inappropriate.
Of the 12 products that were rated the highest and eventually included in the final list of recommended products, eight were from NDEP. Most products included on the final list received an average rating of extremely appropriate. Based on the results of this review, the Alliance produced a list titled Recommended Consumer Diabetes Products. This document is included with every copy of the Living with Diabetes/Viviendo con la diabetes curriculum provided to consumers in the curriculum. This list includes a short description and ordering information for each item.
For more information, contact Paul Baker, project director, at (202) 797-4337, by e-mail pbaker@hispanichealth.org, or by fax: (202) 797-4353. Or send a written request to The National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Attention: Paul Baker, 1501 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036.
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