Diabetes Intervention Plan

Diabetes
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An intervention generally describes a combination of strategies and set of activities that are aimed at improving the health status of an individual or an entire priority population. Interventions with multiple strategies are the bet equips to sensitizing a target population and in so doing improvement of the status of that select group. With regard to the diabetes intervention, the select group is the geographical setup of Hawaii and specifically the priority group is the elderly in this particular society. Diabetes is a major problem in Hawaii because a greater portion of the aging population is suffering from it. An alarming rate of deaths caused by diabetes has elevated it to the seventh causative
agent of death numbers in Hawaii. For this reason, I chose the Hawaii elderly population as the target population.
One of the first steps in implementing this intervention is to understand the cultural, behavioral and social characteristics of the people of Hawaii.
There’s a cohesion between the national health goal for the aged in Hawaii and the sensitization program on diabetes in the sense that the aim is to reduce the prevalence of diabetes in Hawaii, ensure that diabetes management strategies are effectively implemented and help families to effectively deal with life style changes that occur after diabetes diagnosis. Due to their lifestyle, native Hawaiians are at an increased risk of getting type 2 diabetes as compared to the other tribal groupings in Hawaii. This directs our intervention to target the urban Hawaii population. I will seek to obtain permission to conduct the diabetes intervention from the Hawaii state department of health by presenting a detailed proposal of the interventions objectives in line with the state’s health goals on the prevalence of type2 diabetes .The Hawaii state department of health is responsible for carrying out health activities, monitoring and facilitating medical research on residents of the Hawaii
state.
The reason for this is to involve key decision-makers and industry players in a participatory exercise that would foster deliberations on the stakeholder group, the expected outcomes of the process and the actual evaluation of impact after implementation. The expected output of this phase is a permit authorizing and allowing the intervention to be carried out and signed by the state medical officials. Upon obtaining the necessary authorizing documents, I will seek to build the intervention team. The team would generally comprise medical practitioners who will share their firsthand knowledge on the contraction, prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. A nutritionist will be availed for guidance on eating habits, detailed reporting will be automated in spreadsheets and data analysis software used to process obtained data.
The implementation team will then develop an implementation plan of the intervention.
The plan will consist of the objectives of the intervention which include and not limited to iincreasing the number of people with diabetes on medication by 99%, increasing nutrition centers and physical training facilities by 60% to defer diabetes development, increase diabetes self-care modules by 60% in order to promote self-management, increasing percentage of individuals undergoing foot-check by 70% , increasing community health surveys by 50% and carrying out diabetes awareness forums, for instance diabetes walks, quarterly. The plan will also detail the roles of each member of the implementation team and define measures of expected performance and evaluation.(Gorman-smith and Ph) A pilot test for the developed implementation plan will be carried out on a randomly selected number about fifteen recipients, residents of Hawaii aged 50 and above. Feedback reports will be submitted to the analysis team by the pilot group. Amendments if necessary will be done on the implementation plan to factor in the findings from the feedback reports. Phasing in will be used in the final implementation plan with .gradual and stepwise submissions done basing on locations of the Hawaii respondents. A formative evaluation of the test pilots will be documented in reports and refined to suit the various respondents units as the intervention proceeds whilst a summative evaluation detailing the procedures
taken, findings, challenges and conclusive recommendations documented after the intervention is done. (One)This would be to examine the effect of the intervention on the target population. Data collection on the impact and outcome evaluation reports will be done through conducting of interviews, filling in of questionnaires and analysis of samples aimed at capturing the attitude towards the program, acceptability of intended methods, practice of suggested lifestyles ,adjustment and follow up on the actual statistics on the rate of reduction in diabetes contraction.
After the data is collected, the data analysis team will process obtained data and develop graphs and mock maps detailing the actual findings and the general impact of the intervention program.
I will then compile reports from the analysed data describing the methodology findings and conclusions with respect to the initially set objectives. I will use PowerPoint presentations to graphically represent a summary of the report while detailing the changes in performance before and after the intervention. The summary will also detail the cost of the intervention and give recommendations based on conclusions and consultations with the client.

References
Gorman-smith, Deborah, and D Ph. “How to Successfully Implement Evidence-Based Social Programs : A Brief Overview for Policymakers and Program Providers.” Office June (2006): 1–11. Print.
One, Chapter. “Planning , Implementing , and Evaluating an Intervention — An Ov Erview.” n. pag. Print.