The Alabama Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
The Alabama Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
From the CDC
last reviewed January 31, 2005
The Alabama Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1986. Some examples of activities supported by the DPCP include the following:
* Ongoing surveillance. The DPCP has contracted with the Alabama Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics, to develop a risk index or report card to identify the burden of diabetes by county. This model will enable the DPCP to identify high-risk counties in Alabama and make resources available to areas that most need diabetes prevention measures.
* Community-based diabetes prevention and control programs. The DPCP uses CDC's Diabetes Today community-based coalition model to implement diabetes prevention and control programs. This approach is being used in four counties to assess communities; to select groups of individuals with diabetes or at increased risk of developing diabetes; to develop intervention strategies; and to develop criteria for evaluation.
* Diabetes coalition study. In collaboration with the Alabama Commission on Aging, the DPCP is conducting a community-based diabetes study to determine whether a 2-year intervention project improves lifestyle habits, blood pressure, blood glucose, and lipid levels in people with diabetes who are 60 years of age and older. The study involves five intervention sites and five control sites in a three-county area.
* Third-party reimbursement methodology. The DPCP is developing legislative language on diabetes for third-party reimbursement for all people with diabetes in Alabama. It will be introduced in the 1999 legislative session.
* Integration of complications-specific intervention through a managed care system. The DPCP will integrate standards of care and assist managed care systems and county health department clinics within the comprehensive program sites. The DPCP works with selected communities using the CDC's Diabetes Today model. The communities work with health care systems and private insurers to develop a continuum of care that includes diabetes screening, diagnosis, self-management training and education, treatment, and follow-up.
Contact information
Diabetes Control and Prevention Program Coordinator
Diabetes Branch
Bureau of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease
The RSA Tower, Suite 900
201 Monroe Street
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
or
P.O. Box 303017
Montgomery, Alabama 36130-3017
Phone 334-206-2060
Fax 334-206-5324
