Diabetes Health Campaign II
Diabetes Health Campaign part- II
Miriam Timera
HCS/535
October 30, 2014
Professor: Janella Dodson
Diabetes Health Campaign II
In the health campaign Part 1 paper, the issues of diabetes and some of the initiatives implemented nationally and locally was examined in the state of Georgia. Due to the in depth concern of the growing effects on diabetes, the initiatives of this paper focused on the impact of diabetes on all levels of government and communities. Furthermore, the paper also pointed out the importance of addressing the fight on diabetes. The paper identified the statistics of this disease from data gathered from Healthy People 2020 showing that diabetes has affected approximately 23.6 million people in the in the United States making it the 7th leading cause of death (Healthy People.Gov, 2014). Diabetes has many complications that often go along with it, because of those complications, public health policies are apply so issues such diabetes are elucidate to improved the health of all American Health Campaign Part 1 also explored the prevalence of diabetes in the states of Georgia that stated that in 2010 Georgia had approximately 703,289 adults diagnose with diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 1995-2014).
In the continuing efforts of addressing the public health issues, community organizations, the state and federal governments have implemented a serious role in taking steps to help with the concerning disease of diabetes. Part 2 of the health campaign will address how the targeted population is defined at the national level while comparing how these data may differ in the defined community, relating to the nationally identified objective specific to diabetes. It will describe the target population’s incidence, prevalence, and mortality differences between the national and state level, explain the community-based response to the issue, including community-based planning, needs assessments, and selection of locally identified objectives.
Miriam Timera
HCS/535
October 30, 2014
Professor: Janella Dodson
Diabetes Health Campaign II
In the health campaign Part 1 paper, the issues of diabetes and some of the initiatives implemented nationally and locally was examined in the state of Georgia. Due to the in depth concern of the growing effects on diabetes, the initiatives of this paper focused on the impact of diabetes on all levels of government and communities. Furthermore, the paper also pointed out the importance of addressing the fight on diabetes. The paper identified the statistics of this disease from data gathered from Healthy People 2020 showing that diabetes has affected approximately 23.6 million people in the in the United States making it the 7th leading cause of death (Healthy People.Gov, 2014). Diabetes has many complications that often go along with it, because of those complications, public health policies are apply so issues such diabetes are elucidate to improved the health of all American Health Campaign Part 1 also explored the prevalence of diabetes in the states of Georgia that stated that in 2010 Georgia had approximately 703,289 adults diagnose with diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 1995-2014).
In the continuing efforts of addressing the public health issues, community organizations, the state and federal governments have implemented a serious role in taking steps to help with the concerning disease of diabetes. Part 2 of the health campaign will address how the targeted population is defined at the national level while comparing how these data may differ in the defined community, relating to the nationally identified objective specific to diabetes. It will describe the target population’s incidence, prevalence, and mortality differences between the national and state level, explain the community-based response to the issue, including community-based planning, needs assessments, and selection of locally identified objectives.
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