Beating Diabetes: Multidisciplinary Approach to Prevention and Management in Wards 7 and 8

Authors

Autumn Booker
Jonathan Goshu
Oliver Spiva
Ashley Standard

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Wards 7 and 8 have housed a great percentage of the District’s impoverished African Americans far before the 21st century began. Issues symptomatic of severe poverty, including poor public infrastructure, high crime rates, and a lack of access to comprehensive health care contribute to the cyclical nature of residents’ poor health outcomes. Diabetes, as a result, has emerged as a prominent disease among residents east of the Anacostia River in Wards 7 and 8. Residents face myriad barriers to care, such as access and expense, which make prevention and management tremendously difficult. The research group’s objective was to address these barriers with a multidisciplinary approach, involving in-person and virtual resources. Expected outcomes include a decrease in the incidence of new diabetes’ diagnoses, a decrease in the prevalence of mortality as a result of diabetes-related complications, and an improvement of the overall population’s health.

Publication Date

2019

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Recommended Citation

Booker, Autumn; Goshu, Jonathan; Spiva, Oliver; and Standard, Ashley, "Beating Diabetes: Multidisciplinary Approach to Prevention and Management in Wards 7 and 8" (2019). DC Health and Academic Prep Program (DC HAPP). 32.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/dchapp/32

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