Essay about Community Teaching Diabetics

By 2020 estimates show that approximately 250 million people worldwide will be affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus (Shulman, 2000). Type 2 diabetes also known as adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes

Don’t ask me how I feel, I’m not going to tell you. Talking about it makes it worse. When I explain my pain, I have to think about it. Ignore it; maybe it will go away. I dwell on my fears of what may happen. I don’t want to pass that fear on to you. You don’t see it as I do. It’s not your body; it’s not your life. I don’t tell you because I don’t want you to be afraid for me. I can deal with it. I’ll be OK. I don’t tell you because I know that my words are inadequate. I can’t express what it is, yet I do want you to know (even if you can’t exactly feel it). I want to let you in to my world. I want you to know how different my life is from yours, even though it looks much the same. I’m not scarred or crippled.

The rate of diabetes in the United States is one of the highest compared to other developed countries. An estimate of 9.3% of the population have diabetes, of those with diabetes 27.8% have yet to be diagnosed (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). This means that approximately 8.1 million people are currently living with diabetes, but are unaware of it. As of 2012, 12.3% of people with diabetes were 20 years old or older, the largest population diagnosed with diabetes were adults 65 years old or older. 25.9% of this population lives with diabetes (CDC, 2014). On a national level, the CDC have launched initiatives that focus on prevention and disease management. The National Diabetes Prevention Program is an example of one such initiative. This program focuses on lifestyle changes,

The Objective for Healthy People 2020 is to significantly reduce the chances of the high risk population and the population who has the disease. The goal is try to implement a change in their lifestyle choices. Health People 2020 reports that “44.6 percent of adults aged 18 years and over who were at high risk for diabetes with prediabetes reported increasing their levels of physical activity in 2005-08.” The 2020 baseline objective in 2005-08 was at 44.6 percent and

This overview will cover the history, depth and breadth of diabetes along with its impact on the population and determinant data related to the condition. Discussion will be made regarding improvements for this initiative, the impact of health policy, educational programs and recommendations for the future. Finally, the overview will conclude with a discussion on the influence of a Christian worldview.

Collaboration and multi-disciplinary group visits are crucial in encompassing different aspects of health education including realistic goal setting and creating action plans for health promotion, risk prevention, and

The four primary goals of the Department of Health and Human Services in launching the Healthy People 2020 health program includes (1) attaining high-quality and long-life free from diseases, morbidity, injury and early death. (2) Another is to achieve health equality, reduction of disparities and improve overall health conditions of different age group. (3-4) it is also their goal to promote a social and physical environment for good health, wellness, development and healthy behaviors across the life cycle (CDC, 2015).

What are the three greatest challenges to a health communicator in defining target audience for a campaign? How can those challenges best be addressed? When responding to your peers, offer additional ways to address the challenges on their lists

How Does This HP2020 Objective Relate to Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives (See page 116 in the textbook)? Alma Alta’s global initiative initiated the promotion of health care services including primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies to improve the health of all trough education on existing health problems through prevention.

This HP2020 Objective relates to the Alma Ata’s Declaration Health for All Global Initiatives by backing the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy. Diabetes type II is a disease that can decrease life expectancy in affected populations if not diagnosed early and correctly, or prevented in the first place. Reducing annual number of diagnoses increases a population’s healthy life expectancy.

Significantly this therefore futuristically poses a large risk for many Australians as diabetes is able to affect anyone from any walk of life as it is a condition that is not location nor age or gender specific. Not only this but when viewing this condition on a global scale, diabetes currently afflicts more than 380 million people worldwide, which by the year 2030 the World Health Organisation already estimates that the number of people living with diabetes will more than double its rate (Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, 2014). This suggests that developments towards decreasing the estimated number of people who will live in 2030 with diabetes is one that needs further action, planning, research and support towards branching and creating stronger collaborative relationships in order tackle and help limit this condition. Comparatively looking through Australia’s diabetes context, according to Queensland Health statistics, “more than half of all people with diabetes are not receiving the education they need to keep them healthy and out of hospital” (Australian Indigenous Health Info Net, 2015, Diabetes Australia, para 1).

Directions: Develop an educational series proposal for your community using one of the following four topics:

Annual testing for abnormalities in fasting serum cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL cholesterol, and calculated LDL cholesterol levels (ADA, 2008)

Diabetes is one of the most discussed and debated chronic disease amongst many conditions in the category, and has been studied extensively. This is undoubtedly related to just how common diabetes is. In fact, in 2013, according to the IDF Diabetes Atlas (2013), 382 million individuals had diabetes, around 6% of the roughly 7 billion world population. Amongst those, about 80% live in low to middle income countries (IDF, 2013). Considering that those countries form the majority of the world and that they encompass a majority of diabetics, we can notice a very wide spread pattern of diabetes in the world. These high numbers are not stagnant, to boot, with 592 million diabetes patients expected in 2035 (IDF, 2013),

During childhood, I was taught how to maintain good health through health education from my parents. However, during my past volunteer efforts at St. Francis Medical Center, I witnessed how a lack of health education can have devastating effects. Many patients from the surrounding Lynwood community lacked access to basic health guidance, which led to obesity and late stage type II diabetes. I witnessed the debilitating and life-threatening effects of otherwise preventable diseases in these patients, such as heart disease, tissue necrosis, and limb amputation. I hope to place an emphasis on disease prevention in my own work with patients by encouraging them to be vocal and proactive about their health and incorporate exercise, nutrition, and