Abstract
To address the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes in the United States, UnitedHealth Group, the YMCA of the USA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have partnered to bring a group-based adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention to a national scale. Researchers at Northwestern and Indiana universities are collaborating with these partners to design a robust evaluation of the reach, effectiveness, and costs of this natural experiment. We will employ a quasi-experimental, cluster-randomized study design and combine administrative, clinical, and programmatic data from existing sources to derive reliable, timely, and policy-relevant estimates of the program's impact and potential for sustainability. In this context, evaluation results will provide information about the unique role of a health care-community partnership to prevent type 2 diabetes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 120149 |
| Journal | Preventing chronic disease |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 31 2013 |
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- Health Policy
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Designing a natural experiment to evaluate a national health care-community partnership to prevent type 2 diabetes. / Ackermann, Ronald T.; Holmes, Ann; Saha, Chandan.
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