Wisconsin Pharmacists Provide Medication Therapy Management Services

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death and disability in Wisconsin. Approximately 1.3 million adults in Wisconsin have hypertension and less than half of them have their blood pressure under control. Medication helps people control their blood pressure yet only two in five persons in Wisconsin take their hypertension medications as prescribed. Team-based care that includes pharmacists specializing in medication therapy management as integral...

Overcoming COVID-19 Challenges to Deliver Walk With Ease

By September 29, 2020, NACDD will increase the availability of and participation in arthritis appropriate evidence-based interventions (AAEBIs) through the implementation of an effective intervention, dissemination, and delivery model.  The anticipated outcomes of these efforts include sustained delivery of AAEBIs and increased reach of individuals with AAEBIs.

Integrating Walk With Ease into a Benefits Structure: A Model for Employers

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's health statistics office estimates that healthcare professionals have diagnosed 30% of Pennsylvanians and more than 1 in 4 Philadelphians with arthritis.1 Arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions have a broad and lasting impact including physical limitations and poor mental health. Arthritis also has a significant financial impact on both the individual and their employer. Osteoarthritis causes higher direct medical and indirect costs for employers. ...

Montana Dept. of Public Health Expands Successful Worksite Walking Program

Approximately 127 million Americans live with a musculoskeletal condition. These conditions have an associated cost of treatment, care and lost wages totaling more than $213 billion annually.¹ Narrowing to arthritis specifically, this chronic disease affects one in four Americans and causes significant disability.² Similarly, more than one in four adults in Montana, 27%, have arthritis.³ Of Montanans with arthritis, half have activity limitations and nearly...

Alaska Develops Video to Share How Partners Use Youth Survey Results

Alaska youth face health and behavior challenges that increase their chances of death, disability and social problems. Behaviors linked to death, disability and social problems include a lack of physical activity and good nutrition; tobacco, alcohol, and drug use; safety concerns; violence and bullying; suicide; sexual behaviors; and poor connections with peers, adults, and the community. Alaska’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors health risk behaviors among youth so the Alaska..

The Collaborative Effort

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among women in the United States. Although advances in treatment have helped many women live longer healthier lives after a diagnosis, detecting breast cancer at early stages is imperative for long-term survival...

Transportation Shouldn’t be a Roadblock — Communiride, LLC

Every day, 14 Tennessee women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Failure to detect breast cancer in the early phase has resulted in Tennessee experiencing the 12th highest breast cancer mortality rate in the US during 2011 and 2015. Although white women are diagnosed at higher rates, black women carry a higher mortality rate, especially in the Memphis/Shelby County zip codes. Access to early detection of breast cancer, regardless of race or socioeconomic status, is critical to increase the...

A Partnership to Reduce Breast Cancer Disparities in Allegheny County

The PA Department of Health and the Allegheny County Breast Cooperative aimed to reduce breast cancer disparities Allegheny County by increasing community demand for screenings, removing barriers to services, and establishing community support.  The goals for the first 6 months of the program were to:...

Increasing Enrollment in the National Diabetes Prevention Program

Diabetes is serious, controllable and preventable. Diabetes is among Alaska’s leading causes of death and disease. It can increase the likelihood of heart disease and stroke. It can lead to significant disability, including blindness, amputations, and kidney failure. During 2016 in Alaska, diabetes contributed to the need for services in 70,487 hospital visits.

Veggie Script Incentive Encourages Walk With Ease Participant Retention

Arthritis is a major public health problem in the United States.  It affects over 54 million American adults and will increase to 78 million by 2040.  The condition limits 24 million people from performing their daily tasks.

Texas has a 21.5% age-adjusted prevalence of arthritis.  While that is the in lowest quartile of all states, the efforts of the project being highlighted in this success story are specifically working in an underserved area of south Dallas, which