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A Staff Development Program: Diabetes And Tb Education And Screening, Relyndo Manalo Salcedo Jan 2015

A Staff Development Program: Diabetes And Tb Education And Screening, Relyndo Manalo Salcedo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is a growing body of evidence on the positive association between diabetes and tuberculosis (TB), especially in populations with low socioeconomic status. According to the CDC and the WHO, diabetes is increasingly seen as a global epidemic, one that poses a threat to global TB control. The goal of this DNP project was to develop a program to educate clinical staff on the importance of early identification of diabetic and TB patients. The logic model was chosen as the framework for this project because it allows the planner to rationally observe each stage of a project's development. The program …


Using Multiple Sources Of Data To Assess The Prevalence Of Diabetes At The Subcounty Level, Duval County, Florida, 2007, William C. Livingood, Luminita Razaila, Elena Reuter, Rebecca Filipowicz, Ryan C. Butterfield, Katryne Lukens-Bull, Linda Edwards, Carlos Palacio, David L. Wood Aug 2010

Using Multiple Sources Of Data To Assess The Prevalence Of Diabetes At The Subcounty Level, Duval County, Florida, 2007, William C. Livingood, Luminita Razaila, Elena Reuter, Rebecca Filipowicz, Ryan C. Butterfield, Katryne Lukens-Bull, Linda Edwards, Carlos Palacio, David L. Wood

David L. Wood

Introduction
Diabetes  rates  continue  to  grow  in  the  United  States. Effectively addressing the epidemic requires better under-standing of the distribution of disease and the geographic clustering  of  factors  that  influence  it.  Variations  in  the prevalence  of  diabetes  at  the  local  level  are  largely  unre-ported,  making  understanding  the  disparities  associated with the disease more difficult. Diabetes death rates during the past 15 years in Duval County, Florida, have been dis-proportionately high compared with the rest of the state.
Methods
We analyzed multiple sources of secondary data related to  diabetes  illness  and  death  in  Duval  County,  includ-ing  data  on  hospital  discharge,  emergency  …