Important Publications

This set of guidelines, developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies for NYSHealth, is designed to help grant applicants think about and formulate a program evaluation as part of an NYSHealth grant proposal.

This Health Affairs article takes an in-depth look at NYSHealth’s Diabetes Campaign that was set up to tackle the diabetes epidemic in New York State. Launched in 2008, this five-year Campaign has worked to improve health care and health outcomes for New Yorkers with diabetes by advancing prevention and management initiatives.

This continuing medical education (CME) activity from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and New York Diabetes Coalition teaches basic skills needed by health care providers to organize and advance the care of patients with diabetes.

This Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) report, supported by NYSHealth, examines the high rate of hospital readmissions for patients with diabetes and what providers and health care workers can do to decrease these hospitalization rates, improve patient outcomes, and reduce health care costs.

This New York State Community Health Worker Initiative report, supported by NYSHealth, outlines recommendations for advancing the role of community health workers (CHWs) in the health care workforce.

This NYSHealth-supported toolkit is designed to get both grantees and funders to consider sustainability from the onset of their grant projects. It provides resources and tools to help integrate sustainability strategies and practices into all stages of the grant process.

This August 2010 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project brief presents data on hospital utilization by patients with diabetes in 2008.

This November 2010 Diabetes Care article analyzes the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and the risk of metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes. Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has been associated with weight gain and the risk of obesity, but their role in the development of chronic metabolic diseases had not been previously been reviewed.

This August 2010 Population Health Metrics article projects that annual new cases of diagnosed diabetes incidence will increase from about 8 cases per 1,000 in 2008 to about 15 in 2050. As the rate of diabetes incidence continues to rise, researchers project that up to 33% of the U.S. adult population could have the disease by 2050, up from 14% in 2010.

This October 2010 American Journal of Managed Care article looks at the rates of scheduled and unscheduled readmissions among midlife and older patients with diabetes and examines the socioeconomic and clinical factors associated with these rates.

This issue from The Lancet, in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, is dedicated to the global diabetes epidemic. Today, diabetes represents a much more complex problem than just insulin control and this issue examines the creation and implementation of global and local health policies to address the current pandemic of diabetes.

This annual report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation tracks obesity trends state by state and finds that the adult obesity rate has increased in 16 states in the past year and did not decrease in any.

This clinical guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) summarizes clinical evidence comparing the effectiveness and safety of premixed insulin analogues with other insulin preparations and oral diabetes drugs.

This clinical guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) examines the comparative effectiveness, benefits, and adverse effects of available monotherapy and two-drug combinations of medications for adults with type 2 diabetes.

This patient guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides information for adults on premixed insulin as compared to other kinds of insulin.

This patient guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides information for adults on medication options used to treat type 2 diabetes.

These guidelines from the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network offer recommendations to assist providers who care for homeless adults with diabetes.

Developed by the New York Diabetes Coalition in collaboration with the New York State Department of Health, Diabetes Prevention & Control Program, this updated flow sheet offers a detailed chart physicians can use to  track patient history of examinations and tests and record visit dates. 

Developed by the New York Diabetes Coalition, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Health’s Diabetes Prevention & Control Program, these guidelines offer minimum recommendations on areas such as A1C levels, blood pressure, cholesterol, and smoking status. The guidelines are based on the American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Recommendations and are reviewed yearly.

This American Association of Diabetes Educator journal article explores the issues and challenges faced by certified diabetes educator (CDE) trainees in providing diabetes self-management education to patients in safety-net practices.

This new set of standards from the National Committee for Quality Assurance is an innovative program for primary care. The standards provide clear and specific criteria to help primary care providers organize their practices into more patient-centered care emphasizing strong coordination and integration of care; provide comprehensive services delivered as part of a team-based approach to care; and foster a robust relationship between patients, their families, and the provider.

This updated set of standards for medical care in diabetes from the American Diabetes Association is intended to provide clinicians, patients, researchers, payers, and other interested individuals with the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals, and tools to evaluate the quality of care.

This updated set of standards for diabetes self-management education from the American Diabetes Association is designed to define quality diabetes self-management education and to assist diabetes educators in a variety of settings to provide evidence-based education.

This Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation report, Community health workers in Minnesota: Bridging barriers, expanding access, improving health highlights the accomplishments of a collaborative effort to improve the health of underserved populations through the training and use of community health workers.

This analysis from NYSHealth and the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) examines the role of diabetes in driving costly health care utilization in New York State.

This NYSHealth-funded report provides background on the state of the Community Health Worker (CHW) field, the emerging evidence supporting use of CHWs, and the opportunities to advance the field in New York. CHWs are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of the community they serve. They function as liaisons between communities and health and social services, facilitating access to services as well as building individual and community capacity.

This working draft of an NYSHealth white paper explores how Community Health Workers (CHWs) are being given a larger role in primary care as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). As emerging members of effective care management teams, CHWs have been shown to play a critical role in addressing the drivers of health care costs and improving quality of care for patients.

This October 2009 American Journal of Preventive Medicine article highlights the problems caused by obesity in a work setting based on the accompanying review, “The Effectiveness of Worksite Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions for Controlling Employee Overweight and Obesity: A systematic Review.”

This October 2009 American Journal of Preventive Medicine article proposes the effectiveness of “worksite nutrition and activity programs” in helping workers live healthier lifestyles.

This July 2009 American Journal of Epidemiology article provides an analysis of studies between 1998 and 2008 that examine the relationship between childhood socioeconomic status and adulthood obesity.

This July 2009 Epidemiologic Reviews article reviews published scientific literature to understand the impact of the physical environment on the obesity levels of low-income and minority populations.

This July 2009 American Journal of Preventative Medicine paper is a meta-analysis of after-school programs for children under 18, taking place between 1980 and 2008, which incorporated physical activity into their curricula.

This United States Department of Health and Human Services report outlines the current challenges Americans with diabetes face under the current health care plan, and the ways in which health insurance reform could seek to ease these challenges.

The New York City Department of Planning presented Going to Market: New York City’s Neighborhood Grocery Store and Supermarket Shortage in October 2009, based on a study regarding supermarket access among New York City’s residents.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tool shows surveillance data that estimate obesity and diabetes levels in the U.S., county by county, as they stood in 2007.

A National Survey of Obesity Prevention Practices in Head Start was published in the December 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. It describes the results of a survey administered to evaluate the Head Start programs for pre-school children.

This 2010 Stanford University study tracked Starbucks customers’ purchases by caloric intake between January 2008 and April 2009 to determine whether menu labeling altered the number of calories consumed at the restaurant.

In this January 6, 2010 Journal of the American Medical Association article, Drs. Katan and Ludwig summarize the effect eating extra calories has on weight gain, at an individual level. Katan is from the Institute of Health Sciences in VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, while Ludwig represents the Optimal Weight for Life Program, Department of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Boston.

This Columbia University and the City College of New York study, published in the January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, suggests that between the years 1993 and 2008, obesity trumped smoking as a risk to quality of life.

This November 2009 Robert Wood Johnson report—prepared by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health—acts as a research synthesis, highlighting the link between sugar-sweetened beverages and childhood obesity.

The Economic Burden of Diabetes, a study headed by the Lewin Group and published in the Health Affairs Journal in February 2010, estimates the economic cost of diabetes in 2007.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: An Annotated Resource Book for Built Environment and Physical Activity is a resource list published by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation in March 2009.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity guide summarizes recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, the Center for Disease Control, and efforts by local government to reduce childhood obesity and promote healthy eating habits.

This Texas Department of State Health Services communications bulletin highlights successful health promotion initiatives in Texas. The bulletin features programs that aim to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables, increase physical activity, decrease consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, and decrease the consumption of high-energy-dense foods in Texas.

This Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine study, which was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in February 2010, examined the role of grocery store contents in promoting unhealthy eating habits.

This 2008 Harvard School of Public Health study found that older adults, who perceived their neighborhood as safer, had an 8% higher chance of engaging in physical activity.

This August 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation publication highlights programs, organizations, tools and presentations at the community level that promote healthy eating.

A study conducted by the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities examined the differences in socioeconomic and environmental risk exposures for diabetes in African Americans and white Americans living in integrated communities.

This New York Business Group on Health report provides an overview of demographic, financial, utilization, and pharmacotherapy measures for Type 2 diabetes patients in key local markets in the Tri-State area.

NYSHealth grantee Seton Health shared the work of its Defy Diabetes project at the August 2009 American Association of Diabetes Educators conference in San Antonio, Texas. Seton Health’s presentation was received with great enthusiasm by certified diabetes educators interested in replicating Seton Health’s Defy Diabetes Nurse Champion model in both faith communities and primary care sites throughout the country.

This policy brief, prepared by NYSHealth’s Diabetes Policy Center, emphasizes the importance of incentive programs to encourage best practices in diabetes care. The Policy Center will publicly recognize plans that use incentive and reward programs to achieve effective diabetes management and encourage widespread adoption of this strategy across New York State.

Working in collaboration with 11 influential policy-maker organizations, Leadership for Healthy Communities developed this toolkit to equip state, municipal, county, and school leaders with promising and evidence-based policy approaches designed to improve children’s health and reduce childhood obesity.

This June 10, 2009 audit “School Nutrition Report 2008-N-15” released by Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that junk food is routinely sold in New York City schools, despite efforts by the federal and state governments and the City Department of Education (DOE) to promote healthy eating habits among the students.

This 2008 study from the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program into the Community: the DEPLOY Pilot Study, explores whether lifestyle intervention programs based on the successful 2007 Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) can be used in community settings to help reduce the development of diabetes.

This January 2009 article from The Diabetes EDUCATOR, Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Intervention for Delivery in the Community: The YMCA Model describes the approach to adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for implementation at YMCA centers to increase community access to an effective diabetes reduction program through lifestyle changes.

In April 2009, the Food Trust along with contributions from the New York Supermarket Commission, the Food Industry, Alliance of New York State, and officials from the City and State of New York released “Stimulating Supermarket Development: A New Day for New York.” The report details recommendations for stimulating supermarket development in New York City—a key to increasing the availability of nutritious, affordable food in underserved communities and to combating obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related diseases.

Kelly Brownell, Director of the Yale Rudd Center, and Thomas Frieden, Health Commissioner of New York City Department of Health, composed a report highlighting that taxes on soda have significant potential for improving health. This report released by the New England Journal of Medicine provides perspective on a controversial public health measure to prevent diet-related diseases.

Lack of access to fresh food is a persistent problem in communities throughout New York City. Numerous studies show that without access to affordable, nutritious food, obesity and other chronic diseases often result.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation policy brief highlights strategies for city planners, nonprofit groups, and private business to improve availability of fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods and attracting supermarkets to undeserved communities.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation policy brief highlights disparities related to access to healthy foods in low-income areas.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has provided an on-line toolkit which contains various tools for health care providers to help their patients with diabetes.

This Albert Einstein School of Medicine study estimates the hospitalization for complications of diabetes in New York City.

The Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality convened a roundtable of experts to discuss the adoption of diabetes registries in community settings.

This U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration report details the history and future of health centers, and features a spotlight on New York’s Morris Heights Health Center.

This Trust for America’s Health report examines how health care costs could be lowered through preventive care. Preventive care can have a particularly high impact on Type 2 diabetes, which incurs major health care expenditures in New York State.

This presentation by Lynn Silver, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, and Diana Berger, Medical Director of the Diabetes Prevention and Control program, outlines the need for and benefits of mandatory reporting of Hemoglobin A1c levels in New York City.

This toolkit, provided by the New York State Department of Health, includes useful tools to assist with the management and prevention of diabetes. The tools target both individuals and health care providers.

The presentation, developed by the New York State Department of Health, looks at diabetes statistics in New York State from 1997 to 2004.

This study demonstrated the value of Community Health Workers in the health care workforce. NYSHealth is invested in community health workers as a means of improving access to care and also as a linkage between communities and health care and social service providers.

The New York State Department of Health’s Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes was created in conjunction with the New York State Diabetes Task Force, an advisory body of diabetes experts.

New York City Department of Health Report on Diabetes in New York City: Public Health Burden and Disparities documents the prevalence of diabetes in New York City and disparities among neighborhoods and racial/ethnic groups.

This article provides examples of how the practice facilitator model was implemented in four practice-based research networks in the United States. NYSHealth is supporting grantees that use this model to improve quality of care for patients with co-occurring conditions for mental health and diabetes.

The New York Times did a series on Diabetes in New York City in January 2006. These articles report on the costs of this epidemic both in terms of health care expenditures and in reduced quality of life.