Assignment Instructions
**Assignment Title:** Interprofessional Health Promotion Project
**Objective:** To develop a collaborative care plan addressing a public
health concern using interprofessional strategies.
**Scenario:** You are part of a healthcare team tasked with designing an
intervention to improve patient outcomes.
**Requirements:**
- Identify a public health problem and describe its significance.
- Propose an interprofessional care plan involving at least three disciplines.
- Evaluate the expected impact of the intervention using evidence-based
research.
**Formatting:** APA, 3–5 pages, minimum three scholarly references.
**Submission:** Submit to the Capella Health Sciences platform.
Interprofessional Health Promotion
Purdue University Global
MN505 Module #5
Health Promotion- Applying Interventions
Unfortunately, for most people diabetes is found once the onset of the
disease has already occurred. According to the CDC, this chronic disease is
continuing to grow with nearly 13 percent of the United States adult
population having diabetes in 2020, 34.5 percent meet the criteria for
prediabetes and about 79,535 deaths occur each year. Hispanics and Latinos
are the highest population at risk with 14 percent of patients with diabetes
being Hispanic or Latino, followed by African American with 11 percent.
Risk factors for diabetes include some that can be changed such as obesity,
and a sedentary lifestyle, as well as some that cannot be changed such as
family history. Diabetes is the second leading cause of kidney
failure and new cases of blindness among adults in the U.S. It is imperative
that treatment and prevention measures are increased (Thomas, 2016). The
purpose of this paper is to discuss diabetes, a health topic that affects the
adult population.
Epidemiology
The USPSTF guideline recommends determining the population who is at
increased risk of developing diabetes. The risk factors for this guideline
include overweight or obese patients, patients who are older age, patients
with a family history of diabetes, a history of gestational diabetes, and
dietary and lifestyle factors. Although the recommended age for screenings
is 30 to 75 years old, the USPSTF recommends screening at an earlier age
