National Diabetes Education Program

The purpose of the National Diabetes Education Program is to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, to promote early diagnosis, and ultimately, to prevent the onset of diabetes.To learn more about the following campaign, click on the link below:

• "Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABC’s of Diabetes"
  

 Goals and objectives

• Reduce the morbidity and mortality of diabetes and its complications
• Increase public awareness of seriousness of diabetes, its risk factors and potential strategies for preventing diabetes and its complications
• Improve understanding of diabetes and its control and to promote self-management behaviors among people with diabetes
• Improve health care providers’ understanding of diabetes and its control and to promote an integrated approach to care
• Promote health care policies that improve quality and access to diabetes care
   

Strategies and Activities

• Develop partnerships
• Develop and implement ongoing diabetes awareness and education activities
• Identify, collect, develop, and disseminate educational tools and resources
• Review, adopt, and disseminate science-based diabetes care guidelines
• Promote policies ad activities to improve quality and access to diabetes care
• Evaluate activities
   

This program is a joint initiative sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health and the Division of Diabetes Translation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The focus of the NDEP is to communicate research advances regarding diabetes and its control to the general population with culturally appropriate information and teaching tools.

For more information regarding diabetes campaigns, educational materials, brochures etc.  Contact the National Diabetes Education Program:

By Phone:

      Last Reviewed: July 30,2008                                 Diabetes Prevention and Control Program / Links