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Now You Can Help Every Student with Diabetes Succeed
In preparation for the new
school year, one essential back-to-school resource you don’t want to forget is
the NDEP’s Helping
the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel. This
comprehensive guide provides school personnel, parents, and students with a team
approach and useful tools for helping students manage their diabetes
effectively in the school setting. The NDEP’s Transitions: From Pediatric to Adult
Care
tool can also support students with diabetes who are
transitioning to adult health care.
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 Health Care Teams” section has resources to support members of
health care teams, such as health literacy tools, a brief questionnaire about
an individual’s social support network, and a presentation about different
options for adherence measurement.
New Task Force and Community Guide Publications -- Diabetes Prevention and Control
Find additional information on the Community Preventive
Services Task Force recommendation and Community Guide systematic reviews for
Diabetes Prevention and Control. Please share this information with your
colleagues and constituents. For more information about the National Diabetes
Prevention Program and to find programs near you, please visit www.cdc.gov/diabetes/prevention.
The NIH Body Weight Planner
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National
Institutes of Health have partnered to add the NIH Body Weight Planner to USDA’s SuperTracker online tool
as a goal-setting resource for weight management. The NIH Body Weight Planner
(BWP) is a free online tool designed to help adults set personal physical
activity and calorie targets to achieve and maintain weight goals. The BWP is a
unique goal-setting resource for weight management because it accounts for the
change in metabolism as people alter their diet and physical activities and has
been validated using data from multiple controlled studies in adults. Learn more here.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month
Vaccines are especially critical
for people with chronic health conditions such as type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Click here for
more information from CDC.
On the Road with NDEP/NDEP Presentations
See where NDEP will present or
exhibit in the next few months or download a presentation from a previous event. You can view
the slides from the NDEP’s symposium “Guiding Principles for the Care of People
With or at Risk for Diabetes” at the 75th American Diabetes
Association Scientific Sessions here if you missed the presentation in
June.
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