National Diabetes Education Program
Campaigns
Control Your Diabetes. For Life.
The "Control Your Diabetes. For
Life" campaign was the first of many campaigns to come from the National Diabetes Education Program.
The "Control Your Diabetes. For Life" campaign seeks to reach the 16 million Americans with diabetes and their families with messages about the seriousness of diabetes, ways to control the disease, and the benefits of controlling diabetes for life.
Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes
 NDEP's new campaign,
"Be
Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes", makes people with diabetes aware of their high risk for heart disease
and stroke and the steps they can take to lower that risk. A new bilingual
booklet Si Tiene Diabetes, Cuide Su Corazon (If You Have Diabetes,
Take Care of Your Heart) promotes the importance of glucose, blood pressure,
and cholesterol control in preventing heart disease in people with diabetes.
A detachable wallet card allows patients to track these numbers. This
booklet is available online at http://www.ndep.nih.gov
or by calling 1-800-438-5383.
Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent Type 2 Diabetes.
 The
National
Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has
designed a national awareness campaign to get this important information
to the people at risk for type 2 diabetes. The
campaign theme is "Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent Type 2
Diabetes." NDEP and its partners will
also promote clinical
recommendations for health care providers so they know what these findings
mean for their patients and what steps they can take to stay healthy.
NDEP's educational campaign will create awareness among health care professionals and people at risk that type 2 diabetes can be prevented
among high risk adults through modest lifestyle changes and losing about 5 to 7 percent of body weight.
The Diabetes
Prevention Program (DPP) provides the scientific evidence that the rising tide of type 2 diabetes
in the United States can be turned back. That is why NDEP is mobilizing its partners at the national, state, and
local levels to translate these findings into real health improvements for
Americans.
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Diabetes At Work
Business managers may be unaware of the potential impact of diabetes
and what they can do about it in the work place. On the new Diabetesatwork.org*
Web site, businesses can use an assessment tool to estimate the costs of poorly controlled diabetes among their employees.
Newly informed about the impact of poor diabetes control on worker productivity
and health care costs, employers can then review the Web site's section
on strategies for choosing "diabetes-friendly" health plans
(those that offer extensive diabetes medical and education services).
This Web site also has a planning guide to help users find the materials
that best meet their needs for diabetes or health education programs and
more than 30 lesson plans that promote diabetes self-management and prevention
among employees.
A fact sheet on the Diabetesatwork.org
Web site is available. The Web site is hosted by the Washington Business
Group on Health (WBGH) and was developed in collaboration with the National
Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), the American Association of Health
Plans,* and the National Business Coalition on
Health.*
* Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely
as a service 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 is not responsible for the content of the individual organization
Web pages found at this link.
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