Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and lower-limb amputations.
Tools
The Campaign has gathered links and tools that can assist health care providers, community leaders, faith leaders, and policy makers in helping New Yorkers prevent and manage diabetes and its complications. To access these resources, choose your criteria from the drop-down boxes and click the search button.
National organization for sharing innovations and lessons learned in community mapping. Web site contains tools, links, news, training information, annotated reference listing, and other resources.
Session aims to give audience fuller understanding of diabetes and of the different approaches to treatment. Session discusses (1) the presentation of diabetes and (2) the potential integrative approaches to the treatment of diabetes.
Resource offers online CME credit earning opportunities in return for distinct medical information searches through accredited organizations, such as the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Leapfrog Group's comprehensive database of incentives and rewards programs for providers and consumers was co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Leapfrog Group's primer discusses best practices for designing and implementing a payment incentive program, including examples of successes and failures of 13 pilot programs from the concept to program design, implementation, evaluation, and refinement.
Learning Network is an Internet-based, interactive resource for communities and Active Aging professionals.
Georgia’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative toolkit includes a guide on how to establish a health promotion program in faith-based settings and includes both asset mapping tools and suggestions for additional resources.
Web-based tool for searching and mapping businesses by category, (e.g., supermarkets). It provides a simple tool for finding and mapping community elements.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report provides an overview of diabetes in the workplace to educate employers of the importance of workplace diabetes programs. Includes background information on diabetes, diabetes management, how diabetes impacts the workplace, and strategies for diabetes control.
