NDEP News & Notes
January 2007
Volume 3, Issue 1
In this Issue:
Register NOW for the February 27 NDEP Partnership Network Meeting!
Register online for the NDEP Partnership Network Meeting on February 27, 2007 in Atlanta by visiting the official meeting website. The website gives a brief synopsis of the meeting and includes an agenda, meeting logistics, registration information, participant log-in, exhibitor/sponsorship information, and contact information. Remember, early bird registration ends on January 25.
MasterCard and Visa will be accepted for online registration payments. The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors will be processing payments for this meeting, so please note this information for your credit card statements. If you prefer to pay by check, please make checks payable to the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (Federal Tax ID Number: 73-1328414). Checks can be mailed to NDEP Meeting Registration, c/o TEAM PSA, 2970 Clairmont Road, Suite 280, Atlanta, GA 30329.
If you have any registration questions, please contact Team PSA at 678-261-7025 or ndep-pnmeeting@team-psa.com.
The year's meeting will feature an Exhibitor's Hall, where diabetes programs and other organizations and corporations can showcase their work or products, and allow meeting participants to network with others in the field of diabetes prevention and control. If you wish to become an exhibitor or a sponsor, click here for more information.
"Diabetes: The Numbers" PowerPoint Slide Set Available Online
NDEP's newest resource is a series of PowerPoint slide sets that contains the latest U.S. diabetes prevalence and incidence rates broken down by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. They are designed as a resource for health care professionals, diabetes educators, and students. Slides can be downloaded as an entire presentation or used individually. The first set, "Diabetes: The Numbers" is now available on the NDEP website. It includes an overview of diabetes and pre-diabetes, as well as information about diabetes complications, obesity trends, and diabetes complications. To view the PowerPoint presentation, click here, or visit the Resources for Health, Education, and Business Professionals section of the NDEP website.
"Don't Treat Me Like I'm Different": A Teenage Girl's Life with Type 2 Diabetes
About 155,000 young people under age 20 have diabetes-one in every 523. Type 1 diabetes is more common among this population; however, type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in young people and is also more common in certain racial and ethnic groups. Bethannie Ramirez is one of these young people. In "Don't Treat Me Like I'm Different": A Teenage Girl's Life with Type 2 Diabetes, Bethannie describes what it's like to be a teen with type 2 diabetes and shares the steps she takes to live healthier and manage her disease.
NDEP encourages you to share Bethannie's story. Feel free to drop the article in a newsletter or profile a teenager from your own community. For more information about type 2 diabetes and teens, check out NDEP's tip sheet, Dealing With the Ups and Downs of Diabetes, which encourages teenagers like Bethannie to feel okay about themselves and their diabetes. It provides tips for reaching out and getting support from others and taking action to manage diabetes for a long and healthy life.
Mark Your Calendars: NDEP Promotions
Watch 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 now features tools that tie into the following month's promotions.
February is the time to recognize American Heart Month, Valentine's Day, and Black History Month. NDEP will promote two sample feature articles to national and minority media - one geared toward general audiences and another geared toward African American audiences - that make the connection between diabetes and CVD. Also in February, NDEP will introduce "The Science: Diabetes Control" PowerPoint slide set, which contains the latest information on U.S. diabetes prevalence and incidence rates and diabetes management. Use the set as a resource and download slides individually or in their entirety on the NDEP website.
March highlights National Nutrition Month and American Diabetes Alert Day. NDEP will promote its prevention messages through a sample feature article emphasizing the importance of losing weight. Also in March, NDEP will introduce "The Science: Diabetes Prevention" PowerPoint slide set.
Check the February issue of News & Notes for more tools you can use to join in the promotion effort.
Washington State NBC Affiliate Spreads the Word About NDEP
Inspired by the Washington State DPCP, KHQ-TV, an NBC affiliate based in Spokane, Washington highlighted diabetes prevention and control in their TV news coverage and on their website. KHQ-TV aired NDEP's Get Real, Taking Control, Puzzle, and Family Reunion TV PSAs and included the KHQ-TV tagline at the end. This year, KHQ-TV will conduct a public awareness campaign stressing diabetes prevention and control. Currently, the Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent type 2 Diabetes. fact sheet is linked to their website. In the next few months, other NDEP prevention materials will be linked to their website as well. Congratulations to KHQ-TV and the Washington State DPCP for this successful promotion of NDEP!
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Highlights NDEP
In its November 24, 2006 issue, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report featured NDEP in an article about lipid and glycated hemoglobin control entitled, "Improvement in Lipid and Glycated Hemoglobin Control Among Black Adults with Diabetes --- Raleigh and Greensboro, North Carolina, 1997-2004."
The article's editorial note stated that "improvements in lipid levels nationally have been attributed to multiple factors, including increased awareness and education, lipid testing, declining saturated fat and cholesterol content in the diet, and the proliferation of highly efficacious lipid-lowering drugs. improvements might be attributable to national public health programs such as NDEP [National Diabetes Education Program] and the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP)."
The editorial note also stated that "continued education of the public through initiatives of NCEP, NDEP, and other programs remains important in the measures to reduce risk factors and improve quality of care for persons at high risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
Kentucky DPCP Creates New Billboard Ad Featuring NDEP
NDEP applauds the Kentucky Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) for its innovative promotion of NDEP messages and materials. In conjunction with the Laurel County Health Department, the Kentucky DPCP adapted NDEP's Two Reasons I Find Time to Prevent Diabetes: My Future and Theirs print ad for a billboard. In December, the billboard ad was placed in a high traffic area and seen by 33,000 people each day!
Rita Carreón Promotes DiabetesAtWork.org
Rita Carreón of NDEP's Business and Managed Care Work Group took a DiabetesAtWork newsletter article, adapted it to her company's audience, and had it published in the America's Health Insurance Plans' November/December 2006 Medical Affairs Issues Report e-newsletter. Entitled "Resources to Take on Diabetes in the Workplace," the article explains that DiabetesAtWork, has undergone a recent "facelift with an eye toward ease of use," and is specifically designed to address the prevention and management of diabetes in the workplace. Medical Affairs Issues Report is distributed monthly to plan CMOs, quality directors, and other interested parties. Thanks to Rita for spreading the word about DiabetesAtWork.org to your partner organization!
Quick Health Data Online
Quick Health Data Online is a free resource that provides access to comparative, county-level health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories and possessions. Provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health, it includes comprehensive data for both women and men from 1998-2004 on a variety of health-related topics, including diabetes. You can create tables, graphs, and maps from data on any of the topics. County, state, regional, and national data are available and can be accessed by gender, race/ethnicity, and age, concurrently. Single year and three-year averages are included, as are age-adjusted values for many of the indicators. Quick Health Data Online also provides a new tool called "WHAT", the Women's Health Assessment Tool, which enables you to create a snapshot of women's health in your county or state.
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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