Primary Prevention:

Our purpose is to foster cooperative efforts to identify and target those at risk for pre-diabetes or diabetes in order to prevent or delay the diagnosis of diabetes while also increasing awareness of diabetes prevention to the general population

Our target audience: individuals at risk factors for diabetes including those who are overweight, physically inactive, 45 years or older, have high blood pressure or cholesterol, have a history of gestational diabetes, have a family history of diabetes, or have a family background of African American, Hispanic American/Latino, American Indian, Asian American, or Pacific Islander.

Activities include:

• “Kentucky Kids Move It!” Contest
  In the fall of 2006, contest packets were sent to all KY public schools. Students were asked to track their number of steps in periods of 10 minutes. The school with the greatest number of minutes of physical activity among its students will receive a cash award of $1000 to be used toward the schools wellness program. The deadline was March 15, 2007. Winners will be announced in April 2007.

• Creation of a Pre-diabetes Care Tool for primary care providers utilizing the format of the Diabetes Care Tool originally created by the KDN Health Plan Partnership committee. We are currently in our distribution and evaluation phase. Please contact KDN if you would like a Pre-diabetes Care Tool tear pad. Please contact Amy if you have comments or suggestions for the tool.

• Subcommittee working on projects to reduce gestational diabetes and later prevention of Type 2 diabetes.

• Subcommittee examining diabetes prevention awareness campaigns to target men.

Contact: Workgroup Chair: Amy Campbell amyl.campbell@ky.gov or 859-288-2347
Worksgroup Co-Chair: Cheryl Younce cheryll.younce@ky.gov

Kentucky Diabetes Network, Inc.
P O Box 4245
Frankfort, Kentucky 40604-4245

For questions or comments contact Paula H. White: kydiabetes@gmail.com

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