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Feel Better, Stay Healthier
Get tips to help your patients to feel better and stay healthier, the good news handout for people with diabetes. Download, print, and distribute to your patients.
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/TipsFeel_Eng.pdf

Download Patient Handouts
Click here to download patient handouts or send your patients here for a great interactive tutorial about diabetes, includes Spanish version.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/diabetesintroduction/htm/index.htm, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/diabetesintroductionspanish/
htm/index.htm

Introduction to Diabetes
Introduce your patients to diabetes, the treatments and complications that could result, and see additional resources and statistics.
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/

Patient Resources
Get your patients to click here for a variety of resources and other links, including some in Spanish, to learn more about diabetes prevention and control.
http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/187

Nebraska Diabetes Prevention & Control
Our own State of Nebraska Diabetes Prevention and Control program is just a click away. Help us reduce the burden of diabetes locally.
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/dpc/ndcp.htm

Local Statistics
Click for the stats. . . .get the facts. . . .for the local diabetes picture.
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/srd/srdindex.htm

Healthy Lifestyles
Your patients and you will enjoy these creative looks at preventing diabetes. For motivation on eating right, moving more, and other healthy lifestyles, click here and then on the little TV screen ads in the right-hand column.
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/healthy_lifestyles/

Quality Improvement Report
Click here for a summary report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on Diabetes: Quality Improvement – for better care of the patient with diabetes.
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tp/dbgap2tp.htm

NDCC Guidelines
Learn more about the locally-accepted Nebraska Diabetes Care Consensus guidelines for adult and pediatric patients either at their website or ours. Also, visit their website for how to order free brochures, recipe books, and informational material in Spanish and English for your patients or yourself.
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/dpc/consguide.htm

Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator
An easy way for patients (or you) to calculate their Body Mass Index (BMI), an important number to know in preventing diabetes and its complications. Includes recipes, activities, and other information for getting to a healthy weight.
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

Diabetes Life!
Encourage patients to watch dLife for their healthiest possible Diabetes Life! Download and print patient information and tools to help them manage their diabetes. Copy and distribute freely.
http://www.dlife.com/dLife/

Diabetes Prevention & Control
Free info for diabetes prevention and control for your patients or for the public. Check out the award-winning PSAs, print versions and recorded versions available. Just right for a 30-second patient education “sound bite” from you, their busy practitioner.
http://ndep.nih.gov/campaigns/tools.htm#psaRadio

Fact or Fiction?
Find out what information WebMD has to offer you and your patients about diabetes. Your patients are reading it. Shouldn’t you know if it’s fact or fiction so you can help them do the same?
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/45/1667_50910.htm

Inspiration
If Marcia Potts can lose over 180 lbs. to become healthy, we think your patients can do what they need to do as well. Follow this link to download and print a real story for a patient handout. Also includes an Activity Tracker and other downloadable handouts for diabetes prevention and control.
http://www.smallstep.gov/index.html

Various Resources
Includes several resources that health, education, and business professionals will find useful to post and distribute.
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/index.htm

Food & Activity Trackers
Print and distribute Food and Activity Trackers for your patients to monitor themselves and the actions they are taking now to prevent type 2 diabetes.
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/GP_FoodActTracker.pdf

Interactive Prevention Services Selector
Find recommendations by patient’s age, gender, and pregnancy status by clicking the Interactive Preventive Services Selector on the left-hand column under “Resource Links,” and following the download instructions provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
http://www.preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/

Hot Links for Advanced Consumers to...

Prevention & Control for Children
Follow this link for help for diabetes prevention and control for children with diabetes.
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/index_cwd.htm

Small Steps
Read “Why the foot is so important to those with diabetes.”
http://www.epodiatry.com/diabetic-foot.htm

Eye Care
A link to help you understand and learn more about eye care as it relates to diabetes.
http://www.medem.com/medlb/articleslb.cfm?sub_cat=112

Juvenile Diabetes
Check out what’s new for preventing and managing juvenile diabetes.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/juvenilediabetes.html

General Information
Get general diabetes prevention information, including diabetes news, overviews, and current treatments.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html

Interactive Tutorial
A great interactive tutorial about diabetes, includes a Spanish version as well.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/diabetesintroduction/htm/index.htm

Introduction to Diabetes
This will introduce you to diabetes, the treatments and complications that could result, and additional resources and statistics.
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/

Do You Qualify? Find Out Here
Click on this link to see if you may qualify for financial assistance for select diabetes care supplies.
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/financialhelp/index.htm

NIHDPE
Your link to the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Prevention Education, includes info for high risk populations and materials in Spanish.
http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/187

Creative Communication
See ways that you can help prevent or cure obesity for yourself and your family. Click on the little TV screen icons in the right-hand column to see some really neat ads that will encourage you to Move More! for better health. We especially like the “Chin.”
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/healthy_lifestyles/

Good News!
Get tips to help you feel better and stay healthy, the good news for people with diabetes.
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/TipsFeel_Eng.pdf

Prevention-Friendly Work Setting
Being healthy at work is good business. Click here for help on creating a prevention-friendly work setting and on actions you can take now to help prevent diabetes and its complications at work.
http://www.diabetesatwork.org/

Consensus Guidelines
Learn more about the Nebraska diabetes care consensus guidelines along with other helpful information.
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/dpc/consguide.htm

Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)
An easy way to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI), an important number to know in preventing diabetes and its complications. Includes recipes, activities, and other information for getting to a healthy weight for you.
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

Diabetes Life!
If you have diabetes, watch dLife for your healthiest possible Diabetes Life! Click here for tools to help manage diabetes. Copy and distribute freely.
http://www.dlife.com/dLife/

Understanding Diabetes
This will help children, teens, and adults better understand diabetes and what can be done to prevent or control it.
http://www.smallstep.gov/

WebMD
Find out what information WebMD has to offer you about diabetes.
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/45/1667_50910.htm

Download Resources
Resources for those interested in learning more about preventing diabetes and its complications. Download, print, and copy to distribute to friends and co-workers so they can take action now to help prevent or delay diabetes.
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/index.htm

What is diabetes and pre-diabetes?
http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/diabetes.htm

Don’t Miss the Show!
It may even be available in your own language! Click here for free written, audio, and multimedia videos diabetes prevention health info in different languages. Click on the word “Diabetes” near the top of the page, then double-click on the health information that you’d like to print, hear, or view. Tell-a-friend about the videos on how to take care of your diabetes, doctors call it “controlling diabetes” and it means how to be as healthy as possible, even if you have diabetes.
http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/index.htm