NDEP News & Notes
June 2007
Volume 3, Issue 6
In this Issue:
NDEP Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
In 1997, NDEP set out to change the way diabetes is treated. Only eight percent of Americans believed diabetes was a serious disease in 1997. By 2003, diabetes was a TIME magazine cover story. In NDEP’s own survey last summer, 89 percent of Americans reported that diabetes was a serious disease. As NDEP celebrates its 10th anniversary, join us as we continue working to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Launching Soon… NDEP’s One Call. One Click. Awareness Campaign
One Call. One Click. is NDEP’s first-ever awareness campaign to promote NDEP as "Your Source of Free Diabetes Information." As part of NDEP's new effort to "promote, promote, promote," new One Call. One Click. media kits will be distributed to general media, health care professional media, and you – our partners! Media kits will include new print, online, and radio PSAs in English and Spanish. The One Call. One Click. campaign will debut on June 7 at NDEP’s Steering Committee Meeting in Washington, D.C. and media kits will be distributed to partners in July. Look for more information about the One Call. One Click. campaign and how you’ll be able to use the campaign’s media kits in the July issue of News & Notes.
Updated NDEP Publications
NDEP is pleased to announce the online availability of the following revised publications: Working Together to Manage Diabetes: Diabetes Medications Supplement, Working Together to Manage Diabetes: Posters, and the It’s Not Too Late to Prevent Diabetes. Take Your First Step Today. tip sheet for older adults.
The medications supplement and posters are components of Working Together to Manage Diabetes: A Guide for Pharmacy, Podiatry, Optometry, and Dental Professionals, which promotes a team approach to comprehensive diabetes care and provides simple care recommendations to clinicians about making cross-disciplinary treatment referrals. The revised Diabetes Medications Supplement provides a “snapshot” profile of medications for controlling blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Available in English and Spanish, the revised patient education posters can be used by health care professionals in exam or waiting rooms to help educate patients on specific steps they can take in collaboration with their pharmacists, eye, foot, and dental care professionals to control diabetes.
The It’s Not Too Late to Prevent Diabetes. Take Your First Step Today. tip sheet for older adults spreads the news that it’s never too late to prevent diabetes and gives tips to find new ways to get moving, have fun, and prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. The tip sheet has been revised to incorporate the latest physical activity and nutrition updates, as well a new section called “Get Your Friends and Family Involved” that includes more family-oriented action steps.
These publications can be downloaded from the NDEP website and hard copies will be available for order soon through the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. For more information about NDEP publications, click here.
June 11-17 is National Men’s Health Week
This month, NDEP is celebrating National Men’s Health Week from June 11 to 17. Use this opportunity to celebrate fathers and grandfathers and promote NDEP’s Control Your Diabetes. For Life. campaign messages. As part of this promotion, NDEP has prepared a feature article, “ATTENTION MEN! Control Your Diabetes. For Life… And For Your Family,” that emphasizes the link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. NDEP encourages you to use this article in your own publication, or use the information to write your own article. Click here for more information on National Men's Health Week.
Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming NDEP Promotions
In each issue of News & Notes look 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 and can help us promote NDEP together.
July promotions will highlight diabetes prevention through a new feature article, “Preventing Type 2 Diabetes When You’re On-the-Go” that promotes healthy eating tips during summer vacation as a way to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes. For more information about diabetes prevention and healthy eating, click here.
August is a time to embrace back-to-school themes as kids and teens prepare to start the new school year. NDEP will promote Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel, a comprehensive guide designed to empower school personnel, parents, and students to create a safe learning environment and equal access to educational opportunities for all children with diabetes.
Check the July issue of News & Notes for more tools you can use to join us in future promotion efforts.
Medicare Launches “A Healthier U.S. Starts Here” Prevention Initiative
Medicare is launching a prevention initiative called “A Healthier U.S. Starts Here” to raise awareness about benefits that help prevent and detect heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Campaign materials include a brochure with a check list of Medicare’s preventative benefits and questions that beneficiaries can refer to when speaking with their physicians and pharmacists. The campaign also includes a prevention toolkit, which can be used as part of outreach and other ongoing preventative activities.
For more information, visit www.cms.hhs.gov/healthierUS. Remember to visit often as new materials will be added on a regular basis.
America's Health Insurance Plans Highlights DiabetesAtWork
America’s Health
Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans, recently highlighted DiabetesAtWork.org in the April issue of their “Medical Affairs Issue Report” in recognition of National Employee Health and Fitness Month.
With more than 20 million Americans now suffering from diabetes, and an estimated 54 million more with pre-diabetes, there is a number of resources health insurance plans can use to inform their enrollees on how best to control diabetes or prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. DiabetesAtWork.org, a central portal for diabetes related information for employers, is recognized by AHIP as a primary source of information for health insurance providers.
New Diabetes PowerPoint Slide Sets Available Online
NDEP's new series of PowerPoint slide sets contain information on the latest U.S. diabetes prevalence and incidence rates, diabetes management, and diabetes prevention:
Each slide set is designed as a resource for health care professionals, diabetes educators, and students. Slides can be downloaded as an entire presentation or used individually. For more information, visit the Resources for Health, Education, and Business Professionals section of the NDEP website, or click here.
On the Road with NDEP
Look for the NDEP exhibit at these upcoming conferences:
Stop by and visit! Find out more information about NDEP, let us know how you use NDEP in your diabetes activities, and come home with free copies of the latest NDEP resources.
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.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Diabetes Education Program is jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the support of over 200 partner organizations.
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