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Diabetes Projects
Appalachian Diabetes Control and Translation Project
Purpose
To reduce the impact of diabetes on people who live in high-risk
(distressed) counties in the Appalachian Region of the United States
Objectives
Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) "Diabetes
Today" program as the planning translation model, the project
will
- Enhance local leadership, develop policies, and assure collection
of local data
- Provide epidemiological assistance
- Help plan, implement, and evaluate aggressive community-based diabetes
control and prevention activities.
Preliminary results / accomplishments
From October 1, 2001, to September 30, 2002, partners in at least five
counties will
- Develop community partnerships around the problem of diabetes
- Determine the magnitude of the problem in their county
- Plan and begin a series of activities addressing diabetes.
Partners
- CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation
- Appalachian Regional Commission *
- 13 Appalachian states
(all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) *
- Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health at Marshall University, project manager
Target audience
- People in the Appalachian Region who have or are at risk for diabetes.
About 23 million people live in the 410 counties of the Appalachian Region;
42 percent of the Region's population is rural, compared with 20 percent
of the national population. Appalachia is a 200,000-square-mile region
that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New
York to northern Mississippi.
For more information, call the CDC Diabetes Inquiry Line toll free
1-800-CDC-INFO
1-888-232-6348 TTY or E-mail cdcinfo@cdc.gov .
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to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization
by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC
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Page last reviewed: September 30, 2008
Page last modified: August 2, 2006
Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Diabetes Translation
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