Diabetes Program Resources

Diabetes Management in the Workplace

Diabetes Program Strategies: Tools & Resources

This section contains resources for planning an effective program strategy to help you manage diabetes in the workplace. As you create your program strategy consider programs, tools and resources that may be available from:

  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Retail pharmacies
  • PBM chronic disease centers
  • Physicians and clinicians
  • Pharmaceutical manufacturers
  • Community-based organizations such as health departments

Links to diabetes resources from leading non-profit sources for both employers and consumers are provided here.

For a list of all Diabetes Management in the Workplace toolkit templates, tools and resources, click here.

Employer Resources

HealmComprehensive guidance to offer the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program as a covered benefit within your organization. CDC and NACDD, Accessed June 2023. 

National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP)
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
About the National Diabetes Prevention Program
Employers & Insurers
Calculate Benefits and Costs
Tools & Resources
The Research Behind the Program

Diabetes Digital App Technology: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations.
A Consensus Report by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Diabetes Technology Working Group
Diabetes Care, January 2020

Digital Diabetes Tools and Solutions for Diabetes: An Employer’s Guide
NEBGH, November 2018

Improving patient self-care using diabetes technologies
Valeria Alcántara-Aragón, National Library of Medicine, January 2019

Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes – 2020
Table of Contents (clickable)
Diabetes Care, American Diabetes Association, January 2020

Employee Preventive Health Care - Focus on Vaccination
Merck, 2017

Resources for Employers (creating a diabetes-friendly workplace)
American Diabetes Association

Accommodation and Compliance: Diabetes
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)

Health Information Privacy
Rules for protection of personal health information
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA

Consumer Resources

Diabetes Basics, American Diabetes Association

Living Healthy with Diabetes, Healthy Living Magazine, American Diabetes Association

Diabetes, American Heart Association

Living with Diabetes, CDC

Understanding diabetes and mental health, American Diabetes Association

Prediabetes Risk Test, CDC National Diabetes Prevention program

Diabetes Risk Test, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Hispanic & Asian Subgroups are at Higher Risk for Diabetes, CDC, December 20, 2019

Diabetes Portion Plates, Merck:

Research

Public Health Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: The US National Diabetes Prevention Program and Beyond, Current Diabetes Reports, 05 August 2019

Digital Diabetes Solutions in Action: An Opportunity Study, NEBGH, April 2017

Approaches to Coverage of the National Diabetes Prevention Program National DPP Coverage Toolkit , May 2023 

Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement, Karina W. Davidson, PhD, MASc, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, JAMA Network , July 2021