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State-Based Diabetes Prevention & Control Programs
Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) has received
funding from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention since 1985.
Activities supported by the DPCP include the following:
- Define the burden. The DPCP has collaborated with the Massachusetts
Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, the Massachusetts Commission
for the Blind, and community organizations to collect and analyze data
on diabetes in Massachusetts. A validation of the blindness register
was completed in 1996. Recommendations were made to improve reporting
of diabetes as a secondary disability by providers and social workers.
Blindness Caused by Diabetes — Massachusetts, 1987-1994
was published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR), November 1, 1996, Volume 45, No. 43, Pages 937-941. Strategies
to Improve Reporting of Legal Blindness to the Massachusetts Commission
for the Blind appeared in the American Journal of Public Health
in February 1997. In 1996, separate checkboxes were added to the birth
certificate for gestational and preexisting diabetes. Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System data from 1994 to 1996 were aggregated to
create a diabetes data set and a report will be released in 1998.
- Conduct supplemental research. In collaboration with the CDC’s
Division of Diabetes Translation, the Massachusetts DPCP is evaluating
the performance of a risk assessment questionnaire screening tool and
a random capillary blood glucose measurement to detect undiagnosed type
2 diabetes.
- New approaches. The Massachusetts DPCP is working in three
pilot communities to enhance diabetes care by integrating the health
system with community diabetes development. The DPCP is working with
six health centers in these pilot communities on diabetes quality improvement
initiatives. To enhance patient education, each health center also offers
a peer education program called Diabetes y Usted
that was originally developed by the Latino Health Institute. Each pilot
community also has a Diabetes Today coalition, which is facilitated
by the Prevention Center.
- Professional education. The Massachusetts DPCP sponsors noon-time
conferences for internal medicine residents on Newer Tools in the
Management of Type 2 Diabetes. The DPCP also sponsors a 3-hour program
on contemporary diabetes management for both undergraduate and graduate
nursing and nutrition students.
- Legislative advocacy. The DPCP has been actively involved with
the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to develop and recommend policy
measures regarding reimbursement for diabetes supplies, equipment, and
education.
- Publications. The DPCP has developed brochures on eye and foot
care, diabetes screening, and gestational diabetes. The DPCP has also
developed a curriculum guide on Diabetes in the Elderly and a
resource directory called the Diabetes Help-Finder.
Contact information
Diabetes Control and Prevention Program Coordinator
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Bureau of Family & Community Health
Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
250 Washington Street, 4th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Phone 617-624-5403
Fax 617-624-5075
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