Improving Diabetes Management in Primary Care: Building Community Linkages to Address the Diabetes Epidemic, Exercise and Weight Control
December 14, 2017
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Past efforts describing clinical and community linkages have laid important strategies to develop prevention programs and exploring specific types of clinical and community partnerships targeted to the improvement of health services for the diabetic patient. Several important initiatives have attempted to demonstrate the potential for clinical and community linkages and to describe the barriers and the solutions to these barriers. The Chronic Care Model acknowledges the importance of linkages with the community for peer support, care coordination, and community-based interventions. Community-practice partnerships are especially important with elders, low-income, and underserved populations. This Learning Collaborative explores Health Center community linkages to address the diabetes epidemic.