NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED: Diabetes Solutions

 The National Clinical Care Commission is a group of experts who evaluate and make recommendations to Congress on impacts of and solutions to our diabetes pandemic.   Their  most recent report  (January, 2022) recommended a complete overhaul in the way that we address the disease. 

Here are excerpts from a NYTimes article Links to an external site. summarizing their findings. 

• • We have better understanding of the causes of type 2 diabetes, but can't seem to  stem the rise of the disease.

• • One in seven American adults has Type 2 diabetes now, up from one in 20 in the 1970s.  

• • 40 percent of young adults will be diagnosed with it at some point in their lives.

• • Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device, no drug powerful enough to counter the
    effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that are hard to navigate on foot and inequitable access to health care,
    particularly in minority communities.

• • “Our entire society is perfectly designed to create Type 2 diabetes,” said Dr. Dean Schillinger, a professor of medicine at University of
    California, San Francisco. “We have to disrupt that.”

• • Dr. Schillinger and nearly two dozen other experts laid out a road-map for doing so earlier this year in a comprehensive national report to
    Congress on diabetes, the first of its kind since 1975.

• • It calls for reframing the epidemic as a social, economic and environmental problem, and offers a series of detailed fixes, ranging from
    improving access to healthy food and clean water to rethinking the designs of communities, housing and transportation networks.

Assignment

Post to Discussion: Due by  Sunday, Sept 22nd at 11:59 PM

• Look over this Google Sheet Links to an external site.and sign up for one of the topics from the report Download from the report
• In the Discussion below, include  the following: 
  1. Title of the Focus Area, including chapter number
  2. (Example Chapter 4: Focus Area 1. Modernize USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition
     Assistance Program)
  3. Summary of background and rationale - no more than 3-5 sentences
  4. List of specific recommendations with 1-2 sentence summary for each recommendation
  5. Your opinion and reflection: Do you think this is a good idea? Why or why not? 2-3 sentences 
  6. one discussion question for your fellow students to answer: remember our guidelines for discussion questions. 

Response to 1  of your classmates :Due by Wednesday, Sept 25th at 11:59AM

• You must respond to a post that has  no responses.  
  • Respond the discussion question posted by your fellow student. 
  • You will not be graded on word count, but rather on the depth of your response and your engagement with the original post.

Come to class on Wednesday, Sept 25th  to discuss your topic ( bring your notes!)