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An intervention generally describes a combination of strategies and set of activities that are aimed at improving the health status of an individual or an entire priority population. Interventions with multiple strategies are the bet equips to sensitizing a target population and in so doing improvement of the status of that select group. With regard to the diabetes intervention, the select group is the geographical setup of Hawaii and specifically the priority group is the elderly in this particular society. Diabetes is a major problem in Hawaii because a greater portion of the aging population is suffering from it. An alarming rate of deaths caused by diabetes has elevated it to the seventh causative …show more content…
There’s a cohesion between the national health goal for the aged in Hawaii and the sensitization program on diabetes in the sense that the aim is to reduce the prevalence of diabetes in Hawaii, ensure that diabetes management strategies are effectively implemented and help families to effectively deal with life style changes that occur after diabetes diagnosis. Due to their lifestyle, native Hawaiians are at an increased risk of getting type 2 diabetes as compared to the other tribal groupings in Hawaii. This directs our intervention to target the urban Hawaii population. I will seek to obtain permission to conduct the diabetes intervention from the Hawaii state department of health by presenting a detailed proposal of the interventions objectives in line with the state’s health goals on the prevalence of type2 diabetes .The Hawaii state department of health is responsible for carrying out health activities, monitoring and facilitating medical research on residents of the Hawaii …show more content…
The plan will consist of the objectives of the intervention which include and not limited to iincreasing the number of people with diabetes on medication by 99%, increasing nutrition centers and physical training facilities by 60% to defer diabetes development, increase diabetes self-care modules by 60% in order to promote self-management, increasing percentage of individuals undergoing foot-check by 70% , increasing community health surveys by 50% and carrying out diabetes awareness forums, for instance diabetes walks, quarterly. The plan will also detail the roles of each member of the implementation team and define measures of expected performance and evaluation.(Gorman-smith and Ph) A pilot test for the developed implementation plan will be carried out on a randomly selected number about fifteen recipients, residents of Hawaii aged 50 and above. Feedback reports will be submitted to the analysis team by the pilot group. Amendments if necessary will be done on the implementation plan to factor in the findings from the feedback reports. Phasing in will be used in the final implementation plan with .gradual and stepwise submissions done basing on locations of the Hawaii respondents. A formative evaluation of the test pilots will be documented in reports and refined to suit the various respondents units as the intervention proceeds whilst a summative evaluation detailing the procedures