Diabetes
(Diabetes)

On this page:

• Tools (Herramientas)
• Success Stories (Historias de éxito)
• Publications (Publicaciones)
• Journals (Revistas)
• Organizations (Organismos)

Tools
(Herramientas)

• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
  An information portal of diabetes publications of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
  Sponsoring organization: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• California Diabetes Program
  A statewide public health program in the California Department of Health Services. Works with organizations in California and nationwide to monitor diabetes and implement diabetes interventions, to initiate or sustain good public health policy for diabetes, to increase access to quality diabetes care and treatment, and to raise public awareness about diabetes. Maintains the Diabetes Information Resource Center, a portal to help organizations exchange information and tools to support their work to prevent or control diabetes or other chronic diseases.
  Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Services
• United States - Mexico Border Virtual Health Library
  Provides a database of publications and other information sources related to the U.S. - Mexico border region.
  Sponsoring organization: Pan American Health Organization
• The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors
  Lists chronic diseases, risk factors, and preventive services by State.
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Healthfinder (en Español)
  Healthfinder es un servicio del Departmento de la Salud y Humanos de los Estados Unidos
  Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• MedlinePlus: Diabetes y el embarazo
  Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
• MedlinePlus: Diabetes tipo 1
  Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
• MedlinePlus: Diabetes
  Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
• MedlinePlus: Dieta para diabéticos
  Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
• Diabetes
  A series of handouts on diabetes, nutrition and diet.
  Sponsoring organization: Georgia State University Anthropology and Geography
• Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
  Provides Hispanic consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and helps navigate callers through the health system. Nationwide resources and local referral services are provided depending on the need of the caller.
  Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health

Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)

• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.

Publications
(Publicaciones)

• Border Health Strategic Initiative: Overview and Introduction to a Community-based Model for Diabetes Prevention and Control
  Describes an effort to develop and implement a comprehensive, community-based approach to diabetes prevention and control in selected communities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Author(s): Stuart J. Cohen
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Border Report: A Status Report On The Health Of People In El Paso County, Texas And Dona Ana County, New Mexico
  Presents selected health information on two communities in the U.S. - Mexico border region. Information is based on the 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone-based survey of randomly-selected adults. The survey gathered information about many health conditions and personal behaviors that affect health across the United States.
  Sponsoring organization: Paso del Norte Health Foundation
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• Challenges and Opportunities in Border Health
  A general overview of the various studies and key findings on U.S.-Mexico border health, specifically diabetes.
  Author(s): Joel Rodríguez-Saldaña
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Chronic Disease Management Systems (Registries) in Rural Health Care
  Discusses the types of Chronic Disease Management Systems (CDMSs) used by a sample of 14 state organizations and 19 local rural clinics in Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin.
  Author(s): Anne Skinner, Roslyn Fraser-Maginn, Keith J. Mueller
  Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 05 / 2006
  Format: PDF
  
• Developing and Adapting a Family-based Diabetes Program at the U.S.-Mexico Border
  The University of Arizona and two community health agencies on the Arizona border, Campesinos Sin Fronteras and Mariposa Community Health Center, collaborated to design, pilot and assess the feasibility of a lay health-outreach worker (promotora) to delivered diabetes education program for families. La Diabetes y La Unión Familiar was developed to build family support for patients with diabetes and to teach primary prevention behaviors to family members.
  Author(s): Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Rebecca Drummond, Ulrike Rawiel
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Diabetes and Mexicans: Why the Two Are Linked
  Discusses the causes of diabetes within Mexican & Mexican American populations.
  Author(s): Reynaldo Martorell
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Diabetes Higher on U.S. - Mexico Border
  Discusses a study, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mexico Secretariat of Heath, and the Pan American Health Organization that shows people living along the U.S.-Mexico border having higher rates of diabetes.
  Author(s): Daniel Epstein
  Sponsoring organization: Pan American Health Organization
  Date: 11 / 2004
  Format: HTML
  
• Diabetes Is a Community Issue: The Critical Elements of a Successful Outreach and Education Model on the U.S.-Mexico Border
  Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and culturally competent diabetes education is not available in many communities.
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• From Research to Practice: Challenges to Implementing National Diabetes Guidelines With Five Community Health Centers on the U.S.-Mexico Border
  A project designed to address the growing problem of diabetes among Mexican Americans whereby faculty from the University of Arizona work with community health centers to evaluate and improve diabetes care in border communities.
  Author(s): Kenneth A. Schachter, Stuart J. Cohen
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  
• Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health on the United States - Mexico Border
  Provides an overview of a specific set of health indicators on the U.S. - Mexico border.
  Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
  Date: 10 / 2003
  Format: PDF
  
• Public Health and Information Technology at the United States-Mexico Border: Examples Show Potential
  Examines the use of health information technology (HIT) in public health programs at the United States-Mexico border, with an emphasis on frontier and rural health. Includes examples of successful projects addressing tuberculosis, immunizations, and diabetes.
  Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
  Date: 02 / 2007
  Format: HTML
  
• Rural Diabetes Care Management Programs: An Inventory of Sample Programs in Six States
  Developed to share key contact and program information with organizations that are interested in starting a chronic disease management (DM) program in their facility.
  Author(s): Roslyn S. Fraser-Maginn, Anne M. Skinner, Sue Nardie, Keith J. Mueller
  Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 12 / 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• School Program Reduces Risk of Obesity, Disease in Border Community
  Discusses the impact of a school program in El Paso, Texas on obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
  Sponsoring organization: Center for the Advancement of Health
  Date: 07 / 2002
  Format: HTML
  
• Toward Prevention and Control of Type 2 Diabetes: Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond
  Defines Type 2 diabetes and its prevalence among the U.S.-Mexico border population.
  Author(s): Barbara A. Bowman, Frank Vinicor
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Journal citation: Preventing Chronic Disease Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: 01 / 2005
  Format: HTML
  

Journals
(Revistas)

• Frontiers In Health/Fronteras en la salud
  Newsletter of the Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion, that works primarily along the U.S. - Mexico border for the underserved, multi-ethnic communities living there.
  Sponsoring organization: Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion

Organizations
(Organismos)

• American Diabetes Association/Asociación Americana de Diabetes
  La misión de la organización es prevenir y tratar la diabetes y mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas afectadas por la diabetes.
• Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion
  A chronic disease prevention and intervention research center that focuses on diabetes and associated obesity and depression.
• Instituto Nacional de la Diabetes y las Enfermedades Digestivas y del Riñón
  El Instituto Nacional de la Diabetes y las Enfermedades Digestivas y del Riñón dirige y apoya la investigación de la diabetes, los trastornos endocrinos, las enfermedades digestivas, las enfermedades del riñón, la urología y la hematología.