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Wendy Santos 

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Re:Topic 5 DQ 2

 

For successful implementation of the EBP project in diabetes prevention across all cultures, it should include translating research into the real world, improving access to health care, empowering the community, collaborative efforts involving physicians, diabetes educators, nurses, and public health communities, for access to diabetes prevention and management efforts (Muralidharan, Ranjani, Anjana, Allender, Mohan, 2017). Mobile phone technology has shown wide acceptance across various ages and socioeconomic groups and offers several opportunities in health care including self-management as well as prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Muralidharan et al, 2017). Future management for mobile health applications that uses technology from a smartphone to help in the implementation of the evidence based project, which would focus on prevention of chronic diseases such as diabetes for a diversities (Muralidharan et al, 2017).

One proposed way to reduce health disparities is to close the gap in health literacy and increase the use of health information technology to support patient self-management of chronic diseases with the use of smartphones (CDC, 2016).  The creation of an eHealth-literate population in an age of rapidly advancing technology should be a priority in American public health policy, research, practice, and education, and prevention of diseases (CDC, 2016). The World Health Organization (WHO) considers mHealth as a component of electronic health (eHealth), that include various functions including mobile cellular communications such as short message service (SMS), phone calls, multimedia messaging service, access to the internet, and software applications to use in your workplace to communicate with intended audience (Muralidharan et al, 2017).

 It has been shown in studies that exposure to text messages without any cost-based activity such as in-person visits or counseling could result in behavioral changes and lower diabetes risk by helping participants engage in healthy habits such as increasing their physical activity, avoiding foods high in fat, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake, across all diversities (Muralidharan et al, 2017). The mobile application was used to reinforce the in-person sessions, and this was done using daily messages, and could also be used for video clips and even quizzes (Muralidharan et al, 2017). This technology using SMS messages is in place at my current job to communicate with all the parents in our school district, and is used frequently to send messages of prevention on a multiple of illnesses and disease along with contact information for low cost clinics, and resources to access care.   

 

Center of Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (2016). eHealth Literacy, Online Help Seeking Behavior, and Willingness to Participate in mHealth Chronic Disease Research. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0210.htm

Muralidharan, S., Ranjani, H., Anjana, R. M., Allender, S., & Mohan, V. (2017). Mobile Health Technology in the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 21(2), 334–340. http://doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_407_16

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