Diabetes Education Materials for Health Educators

One of the four overarching goals of the national health agenda, Healthy People 2020, is to “achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all Americans.” With that in mind, health educators are tasked with ensuring that “effective communication” is provided to all people including: 1) those with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and 2) those with Limited English Proficiency as outlined by the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.

Newly Diagnosed with Diabetes

American Diabetes Association’s “Living with Type 2 Diabetes” Program Free. Five packages of diabetes education materials are sent by U.S. mail or via e-mail over a period of one year. Available in Spanish. Call 1-800-DIABETES to enroll or sign up online. www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-2 Educators can order 50 copies of “Where Do I Begin?” in English or Spanish. http://www.diabetes.org/atdx.

Diabetes HELP Team: Three webinar topics for the newly diagnosed, one for caregivers of children with Type 1, plus webinars on use of various insulins. Features live Q & A with a CDE. www.cdehelpteam.com

dLife TV: Weekly 30-minute video program online, plus hundreds of on-demand videos available. www.dLifeTV.com

Learning about Diabetes www.learningaboutdiabetes.org Over 90 one-page handouts in English and Spanish, plus videos, cartoons, coloring books, comics and 10-page booklets: What Is Diabetes?, Understanding Blood Sugar, Diabetes and Exercise, Diabetes and Healthy Eating, and Diabetes and Your Feet. New: Handouts in Burmese (no link from main site, use Google to find.)

American Sign Language Diabetes Video: Dr. Chris Moreland, UC Davis Medical Center. www.norcalcenter.org/diabetes

For the Visually Impaired Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland: Audio recordings available to order. www.diabetespartnership.org/visimpaired.asp

Living with Blindness and Diabetes: Print/Audio. www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/books/BridgeGap_Diabetes.htm

AFB: Online audio recordings of AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors. www.afb.org/seniorsite.asp?SectionID=63&TopicID=396

Carroll Center for the Blind: Diabetes and Visual Impairment webinar. http://carroll.org/online-courses

NLS “Talking Books”: Diabetes Education materials can be downloaded to digital reader. www.loc.gov/nls

American Diabetes Association Website: “Listen to Text” prompt available in English and Spanish. www.diabetes.org

NFB-NEWSLINE: ADA’s magazine, Diabetes FORECAST, is available to download to digital reader: 1-866-504-7300.

“Talking” AutoCode Blood Glucose Meter (Eng/Span/Fren/Arabic): Meter and 100 strips: $30. ww.rxoutreach.org/diabetic

Multicultural Resources

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) http://ndep.nih.gov/publications/index.aspx

Resources for people with diabetes, people at risk for diabetes, health care professionals, businesses and schools. Several publications available in: Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Urdu, Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese. First 10 copies of most materials are free. Order publications online or by calling: 1-888-693-NDEP. New: Diabetes Resources Catalog With Special Resources for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Indian Health Service www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes

Available for order: Free 90-day wellness journal, magazines, guides, booklets, posters, DVDs, and more.

Migrant Clinicians Network: Diabetes Toolkit. www.migrantclinician.org/issues/diabetes/online-toolkit.html

EthnoMed http://ethnomed.org/patient-education/diabetes Available for download: Sick Days and Diabetes, Exercise and Diabetes, Meal Planning Basics, Meal Portions, Foot Care. Languages include: Amharic, Khmer, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Vietnamese MP3 audio also available.

Novo Nordisk Diabetes Care http://www.novomedlink.com/diabetes/for-your-patients.aspx 1) Handouts available for download in English plus Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Russian include:

Diabetes Community Action Coalition of Fulton County: dcacfulton@gmail.com. Revised 2/18/14

What is Diabetes?, Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Hyperglycemia, Leg exercises, Foot care, and Checking Your Blood Sugar.

2) Educator must create an account on NovoMedLink website to order free booklets. Up to 40 copies of each title are available in English and Spanish: Diabetes Medicines, Caring for Your Diabetes, Carb Counting and Meal Planning, Diabetes and You, Guide to Better Office Visits, and Sample 1200 to 2200 kcal meal plans.

Utah Diabetes Prevention and Control Program Diabetes Manuals in: http://health.utah.gov/diabetes/resourcesmain/multicultmanuals.htm

Arabic Farsi Spanish

Korean Navajo Portuguese

Russian Samoan Serbo-Croatian

Chinese: Trad. & Simplified Tongan Vietnamese

Refugee Health Information Network www.rhin.org Diabetes Are You at Risk? English, Haitian Creole, Khmer, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese Diabetes Can Harm Your Vision English, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish If You Have Diabetes , Know Your Cholesterol Numbers English, Portuguese, Spanish Diabetes Info Sheet English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Vietnamese Diabetes and Your Feet English, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish If You Have Diabetes, a Flu Shot Could Save Your Life English, Portuguese, Spanish What Can You Do to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes English, Russian

American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin http://aapiusa.org/resources/nutrition.aspx Book available for download (188 pages), Indian Foods: AAPI's Guide to Nutrition, Health and Diabetes, 2nd Edition,

with chapters on: Preventing Heart Disease in Asian Indians, Choosing Healthy Snacks, Low Fat Cooking, Carb Counting for Indian Foods, Managing in an Indian Restaurant, Indian Desserts, the Renal Diet, and six Regional Cuisines including: North Indian, East Indian, South Indian, Nepali, Maharashtrian, Gujarati.

Appendix includes: Gestational Diabetes Sample Meal Plan and What Can I Eat to Manage my Diabetes? in English, Hindi and 10 regional languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu.)

Diabetes UK: www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Information-in-different-languages1

Albanian Arabic Bengali British Sign Language

Chinese (Trad.) Croatian Farsi French

Gujarati Hindi Italian Polish

Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Serbian

Somali Tamil Turkish Urdu & Welsh

Diabetes in Pregnancy Gestational Diabetes Resources for South Asians www.pamf.org/southasian/healthy/gdresources.html

Other Diabetes in Pregnancy: CDC booklets for women with preexisting diabetes who plan to get pregnant and for women who develop Gestational Diabetes. Bulk orders available. www2.cdc.gov/ncbddd/faorder/orderform.htm

Eye Health National Eye Institute’s Diabetic Eye Disease program. Free brochures, videos, posters, magnets, and other teaching resources are available in English and Spanish. www.nei.nih.gov/nehep/programs/diabeticeyedisease/professionals.asp

Prevent Blindness America’s Diabetic Eye Disease Educator Program. Free online course for community health educators is available in English and Spanish. http://diabetes.preventblindness.org/?q=node/85

Kidney Health National Kidney Foundation: Brochures in 9 languages available for download http://www.kidney.org/atoz/index.cfm

Foot Care Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention (LEAP) Program: Free monofilaments. Education materials to download. Courses online for health educators. http://www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/leap/

Other resources: Medicare: Medicare Coverage of Diabetes & Supplies (Pub 11022), Are You Having Trouble Paying for Prescription Drugs?

(Pub 11318.) Available in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish. http://www.medicare.gov/publications/multilanguage.asp

Multilingual Health Topics: Stanford Health Library. http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/foreign