Program & Initiatives
October 29, 2018 | Agency

Diabetes Action Plan (DAP) - 2018

As of 2017, in accordance with Ohio House Bill 216, the Ohio Department of Health is required to convene representatives from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, Ohio Department of Administrative Services and Ohio Commission on Minority Health, known as the Diabetes Action Plan Committee, to develop an Ohio Diabetes Action Plan (DAP) every two years. The DAP Committee is tasked with the following:
  • Assessing the prevalence of all types of diabetes in this state, including disparities in that prevalence among various demographic populations, local jurisdictions and state employees; 
  • Providing updates on current and future diabetes initiatives within each appointed agency;
  • Monitoring initiatives to reduce the prevalence of all types of diabetes, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes among the populations of concern to each agency;
  • Developing policy and program recommendations to decrease diabetes prevalence in Ohio;
  • Developing proposed costs to implement policy and program recommendations;
  • Identifying how to measure progress achieved toward attaining established policy and program recommendations; and,
  • Convening external stakeholder meetings for recommendation/progress review and feedback. 

Please click here to read the 2018 Ohio Diabetes Action Plan.

 

 

 

Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention and Management Program (1815)

The Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention and Management Program, funded by CDC cooperative agreement 1815, implements and evaluates evidence-based strategies to prevent and manage diabetes and cardiovascular disease in high-burden populations. This program implements the prediabetes/diabetes strategies listed below which focus on scaling and sustaining diabetes prevention and management programming (e.g., National Diabetes Prevention Program (N-DPP) and Diabetes Self-Management Education/Program (DSME/P)), healthcare system quality improvement and linking community resources and clinical services. 
 
Diabetes Management: Improve Care and Management of People with Diabetes
  • Improving access to and participation in ADA-recognized/AADE-accredited DSME/P programs in underserved areas
  • Increasing engagement of pharmacists in the provision of medication management or DSME/P for people with disabilities

 

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: Improve Access to, Participation in, and Coverage for the N-DPP Lifestyle Change Program for People with Prediabetes, Particularly in Underserved Areas
  • Assisting health care organizations in implementing systems to identify people with prediabetes and refer them to CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs (e.g., N-DPP) for type 2 diabetes prevention
  • Collaborating with payers and relevant public and private sector organizations within the state to expand availability of the N-DPP as a covered benefit for one or more of the following groups:
    • Medicaid beneficiaries
    • State/public employees
    • Employees of private sector organizations 
  • Implementing strategies to increase enrollment in CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs (e.g., N-DPP)
 

State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP)

The Ohio 2017-2019 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) was developed to improve the health of Ohioans through implementing a strategic set of evidence-based strategies at the scale needed to measurably improve population health outcomes and achieve health equity. Chronic disease is one of three priorities in the SHIP.

Reducing diabetes is one of three outcome objectives for the chronic disease priority. Implementing activities that address healthy eating and active living; prediabetes risk screening, testing for prediabetes and referral to lifestyle change programs such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program are designed to reduce the diabetes prevalence in Ohio. 

The SHIP also takes a comprehensive approach to decreasing health disparities and achieving health equity by addressing the social determinants of health (education, housing, employment, etc.), prioritizing strategies most likely to reduce health disparities and implementing interventions that target priority populations.

Please click here for more information on the SHIP.