National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a joint federally sponsored initiative between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. It involves public and private partners to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, to promote early diagnosis, and ultimately to prevent the onset of diabetes. The overall goal of the initiative is to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes and its complications. The audience is the general public, people with diabetes and their families, health care providers and also payers and purchasers of health care
and health care system policy makers.

The NDEP’s objectives are;

• To increase public awareness of the seriousness of diabetes, its risk factors, and potential strategies
for preventing diabetes and its complications.
• To improve understanding about diabetes and its control and to promote better self-management behaviors among people with diabetes.
• To improve health care providers’ understanding of diabetes and its control and to promote an integrated approach to care.
• To promote health care policies that improve the quality of and access to diabetes care.
• To promote health care policies that improve the quality of and access to diabetes care.

More details can be found at the CDC web site at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/projects/ndeps.htm .