Making the Business Case for Diabetes Prevention and Management

RESOURCES

  • Making a Difference: The Business Community Takes on Diabetes
    http://ndep.nih.gov/resources/business/index.htm

    This white paper is a call to action for business leaders to become involved in workplace and community activities to control diabetes-related complications. It provides information on the human and economic impact of diabetes and gives suggestions on how businesses can help employees with diabetes achieve improved glycemic control (published 9/99). Single copy $1. Commercial printer-ready Zip cartridges or CDs available. Call 1-900-890-8747.

  • Healthy Workforce 2010: An Essential Health Promotion Sourcebook for Employers Large and Small
    http://www.prevent.org/publications/Healthy_Workforce_2010.pdf

    This booklet educates business leaders about how worksite health promotion/disease prevention programs add to the bottom line.

  • A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage is an important resource on preventive services.
    http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/prevention/purchasers/index.cfm

    Developed by the National Business Group on Health in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Purchaser's Guide translates clinical guidelines and medical evidence, providing large employers with the information they need to select, define, and implement preventive medical benefits such as colorectal cancer screening and tobacco use treatment.

  • Workshop Planning Guide.
    http://www.diabetesatwork.org/diabetesatwork/_files/Workshop_Planning_Guide.pdf

    This Workshop Planning Guide provides a step-by-step description on how to conduct a workshop for business partners on the importance of worksite wellness support and how to use the NDEP website www.diabetesatwork.org. A CD-ROM can be ordered from www.ndep.nih.gov that includes this Planning Guide as well as modifiable templates for invitations, sample agenda, evaluation forms Power Point presentations and other materials taken from actual workshops conducted around the country.
This site last modified: May 23, 2023
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Diabetes Education Program is jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the support of more than 200 partner organizations.