14type 2 Diabetes: A Case Study

The results will be an aide for public health staff and wellness coordinators to implement programs that will indeed educate and slow down the development of future chronic diseases. The main categories that were of priority focus were: hemoglobin A1C, blood pressure, body mass index and waist circumference. Hemoglobin A1C lab values exposes the numbers relating to diabetes. Lab values of Hba1c are 5.6 and below are normal lab values, 5.7-6.4 are prediabetes, 6.5 or greater means the individual has diabetes. 13Diabetes mellitus affects an estimated 29.1 million people in the United States and is the 7th leading cause of death.14Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem. 14Prediabetes is defined as impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose or both. The goal is to have normal glucose levels within the majority population. 14Recognizing individuals with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus would enable management aimed at lowering glucose levels to reduce both progression from prediabetes and
As a public health worker, we aim to educate the public about healthy living such as developing healthy eating habits, conducting physical activity, regular checkups which will reduce obesity. Healthy weight, body mass index values range from 18.5-24.9, 25.0-29.9 indicated overweight, 30.-39.9 indicates, obesity and 40 and above indicate morbid obesity. Reducing obesity is the goal for the Newport News Public School System. 16Managing weight in the workplace begins with building “the foundational aspects of employee health and well-being. This includes providing healthy food options, ways to move and stretch during the workday, and physical activity competitions and challenges to add a little peer pressure as motivation. 17Evidence based programs are being implemented in nearly every state, with hundreds of thousands of participants