June 2011 News

Thanks to all who attended the May 5th DPAC Meeting! For those of you not able to attend, a meeting page highlighting the day will be posted shortly on the DPAC website, www.dpacmi.org.

Here are some updates that may be of interest to you.

Your Input Needed!
From the DPAC Prevention Workgroup:
One objective from the Prevention Workgroup-Collaboration Team is to expand membership on the workgroup. To do this, we are asking DPAC members to suggest potential members we can contact to join. Please take a moment to tell us about any partners working in prevention who would be an asset to DPAC, these can be nontraditional partners (such as business owners offering incentives for their employees who quit tobacco)! The survey will take only a moment or two. Thanks!
www.surveymonkey.com/s/DPACPreventionCollaborationSurvey.

Diabetes and Kidney Disease Module
The MDCH, Diabetes Prevention and Control Program provides two free contact hours through web based Independent Study Modules that offer continuing education credits for nurses, dietitians, medical assistants and other health care workers. The latest module is on kidney disease. To participate please visit edmodules.dpacmi.org.

Equity Summit 2011: Healthy Communities, Strong Regions, A Prosperous America
The 4th annual Equity Summit will be held November 8-11, 2011 in Detroit. This national conference brings together equity advocates, activists, policymakers, foundation officials, and equity leaders to advance policy agendas for health, transportation, jobs, education, and housing. For more information, please see www.equitysummit2011.org/.

Choose My Plate
Today the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has released the new healthy eating graphic (replacing the food pyramid). To see the graphic and learn more, check out www.choosemyplate.gov/.

NDEP 2011 Numbers-At-a-Glance
Based on American Diabetes Association clinical recommendations, this handy pocket guide, ndep.nih.gov/media/numatglance_eng.pdf provides a list of current recommendations to diagnose and manage pre-diabetes and diabetes. For order information please visit ndep.nih.gov/index.aspx

Improving Middle School Health
Preliminary results of one Michigan middle school goal of increasing healthy lifestyle choices. consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=652846

Alliance to Reduce Health Disparities Webinar
This webinar, Organizational Policy and Systems Change Webinar: Overview and Examples from the Alliance, will be held on June 22nd, form 1:00pm-2:00pm. The purpose will be to define and discuss organizational policy and systems change and highlight examples related to reducing diabetes disparities in Alliance projects (including Chicago and Dallas). Registration information can be found at: https://umichsph.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8exCvAoQgnmvtMU.

GDM Can Be Predicted Before Pregnancy
A recent study published by the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that routine evaluation of risk factors could help diagnose and prevent gestational diabetes before a women becomes pregnant. Investigators found having high blood sugar levels and being overweight made women 4.6 times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than other women who did not have those risk factors. To learn more, see www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=653324.

Upcoming Meetings
DPAC Board Meeting: June 30th, 8:30am-9:30am
DPAC Fall Meeting: October 20th 9:30am-3:30pm