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NDEP News & Notes: NDEP’s Plain Language Resources Can Help You Make Diabetes Messages Clear and Simple

NDEP News & Notes: NDEP’s Plain Language Resources Can Help You Make Diabetes Messages Clear and Simple





News_Notes

October 2015, Vol 11, Issue 10

October is Health Literacy Month

Having limited health literacy skills can be a problem for people with chronic diseases, such as diabetes. Health-related terms and concepts can be hard to understand. Learn more about NDEP’s plain language publications and the process NDEP uses to incorporate plain language principles for health literacy and numeracy here.

New Study Finds More than Half of Asian Americans with Diabetes are Undiagnosed

More than half of Asian Americans and nearly half of Hispanic Americans with diabetes are undiagnosed, according to researchers from the NIH and CDC and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Additionally, prevalence of diabetes for all American adults went up, from nearly 10 percent to over 12 percent between 1988 and 2012. Principle 1: Identify People With Undiagnosed Diabetes and Prediabetes in NDEP’s Guiding Principles outlines how to detect individuals with diabetes and prediabetes to facilitate appropriate early interventions.

Life Style Intervention or Metformin Reduce Diabetes Development

The NIH-funded Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study shows lifestyle intervention or metformin significantly reduced diabetes development over 15 years. This result supports the importance of diabetes prevention. 

Diabetes Education and Support: Everyone has a Role. What's Yours?

As you prepare for National Diabetes Month this November, the NDEP encourages you to visit the NDEP’s National Diabetes Month page at YourDiabetesInfo.org/DiabetesMonth2015 to find resources and materials to support your Diabetes Month outreach efforts and this year’s NDEP theme: Diabetes Education and Support: Everyone Has a Role. What’s Yours?

Exploring Promoting Medication Adherence in Diabetes

NDEP's Promoting Medication Adherence in Diabetes web resource has resources to help health care professionals improve medication-taking behavior in their patients. The Resources for Patientssection has resources for health care professionals to use with their patients to promote medication-taking behavior.

Riñones, Tesoros Education Program for Community Health Workers

Riñones, Tesoros (Kidneys, Treasures) Education Program for promotores de salud (Community Health Workers) helps fill the kidney disease education gap within the Hispanic community by providing materials to educate Hispanics with diabetes about their risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and how to keep their kidneys healthy. The materials are bilingual and include a flipchart and a training manual.

Diabetes & the Flu

It’s flu shot season and the NDEP reminds you that people with diabetes are at high risk for serious flu complications, and the best way to prevent the flu is by getting vaccinated each year. Encourage everyone – especially those with diabetes – to get a flu shot

Step It Up! Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities

The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, has issued a “Call to Action” to encourage Americans to walk more and communities to create safe, accessible places for people to walk and wheelchairs to roll. Visit Step It Up! to find the call to action and partner resources to help increase walking and walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities.

Partners Shine in NDEP's Partner Spotlight

NDEP’s October Partner Spotlight features Deb Zlomek, for her involvement evaluating and promoting the Diabetes HealthSense web resource.

On the Road with NDEP

See where NDEP will be presenting or exhibiting or download a presentation/webinar from a past event. If you missed a past CDC NDEP webinar, you can access webinar recordings, slides, and transcripts here.
www.yourdiabetesinfo.org

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