Diabetes and Eye Exams in Primary Care
Diabetes and Eye Exams in Primary Care Tuesday, March 28, 2018 Slides The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends that anyone with diabetes should receive a retinal exam every year. Early detection can reduce the risk of severe vision loss by 90% and significantly reduce long-term healthcare costs. Unfortunately, fewer than 50% of patients with diabetes […]
Management, Education and Support, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Smoking Cessation, and Psychosocial Issues
Management, Education and Support, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Smoking Cessation, and Psychosocial Issues Thursday, March 15, 2018 Slides Residents of public housing are particularly at risk of developing diabetes and diabetes-related complications due to the many social factors that impact their health. A recent HUD publication indicates that HUD-assisted adults have the highest prevalence of diabetes […]
Improving Diabetes Management in Primary Care: Building Community Linkages to Address the Diabetes Epidemic, Exercise and Weight Control
Improving Diabetes Management in Primary Care: Building Community Linkages to Address the Diabetes Epidemic, Exercise and Weight Control December 14, 2017 Recording | Slides | Summary Report 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. […]
Strategies for Diabetes Awareness, Prevention and Control: Focusing on Prediabetes/ Addressing Socioecological Determinants of Prediabetes and Diabetes
Strategies for Diabetes Awareness, Prevention and Control: Focusing on Prediabetes/ Addressing Socioecological Determinants of Prediabetes and Diabetes October 24, 2017 Recording | Summary Report The world is in the midst of parallel and rapidly advancing epidemics – obesity and type 2 diabetes – that begun in the latter of the 20th century and continue to grow, […]
Diabetes in Special and Vulnerable Populations: A National Learning Series
Diabetes in Special and Vulnerable Populations: A National Learning Series November 29, 2017 Slides | Recording Summary: Diabetes affects more than 30 million people in the United States. Multi-tiered efforts to prevent, treat, and manage diabetes are critical in reducing the burden of diabetes, particularly for medically underserved racial and ethnic minority populations. In addition […]