An Outreach Model for Diabetes Health Education and Prevention for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers- A Program Plan and Evaluation (“Diabetes Health Education for the Mobile Poor”)
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Iglesias, Dana, M.D.
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
- Abstract
- The North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP) works with the state’s networks of providers to improve the health of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Health care providers are challenged with barriers to care distinctive to farm work. There is usually a short window of time to provide care to farmworkers before they leave the area to find more work. Daily work hours are long, most lack transportation and are unable to pay or qualify for health services. Therefore, outreach services are an important link in order for farmworkers to access health care. Farmworkers also have high rates of obesity and diabetes. Barriers to care cause them to delay care placing them at greater risk for complications. The core of North Carolina Farmworker Health Program’s enabling services is supplied by outreach workers. Improving diabetes health is a priority for the NCFHP. The program’s outreach workers are faced with the task of delivering quality health education and meeting farmworker’s needs as they arise. The purpose of this paper is to describe the program plan and evaluation called An Outreach Model for Diabetes Health Education and Prevention for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. A review of diabetes education programs targeting farmworkers and implemented by outreach workers isolated four programs studied in the U.S. The research of existing programs and program theory influenced the final program plan and evaluation. The program plan includes a detailed program plan and evaluation plan, explaining how it fits into the existing components of diabetes education offered by NCFHP. Likely the best implemented plan will include a curriculum implement by outreach workers consisting of multiple diabetes health education sessions. The challenges are implementing this with available staff and how to best evaluate outreach workers and farmworkers after education is delivered. A well implemented program plan can improve obesity and diabetes outcomes for farmworkers in the future.
- Date of publication
- August 2011
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- Paper type: Program Plan/Evaluation
- Track: HC&P
- Advisor
- Calleson, Diane
- Degree
- Master of Public Health
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2011
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- b6f6bdeb-f0b9-4907-a2ad-769b5d2e1080
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