Call to action
Call to Action
AWARENESS
Although the ultimate goal is to find a cure for diabetes, Dennis. E. Harris diabetic foundation also aims to provide information, guidance, and support necessary to enable people to be proactive in their self-care. To create a yearly campaign designed to educate the community about diabetes and the diabetic foot. The Dennis. E. Harris diabetic foundation also helps to improve the community’s understanding of the self-managing process of diabetes to enjoy a healthy and balanced lifestyle, while reducing the risks of its associated complications. ACCESS: The way the world population has been living is entirely unsustainable, with full reaching consequences for health, the planet, and the future. The Dennis. E. Harris diabetic foundation focus is on long-term environmental, social, economic and health impacts of human choices. It is our objective to build a state-of-the-art diabetic research institute for all things Diabetic. DEHDF will also design two sports and rehabilitation centers.
ACCESS
The way the world population has been living is entirely unsustainable, with full reaching consequences for health, the planet, and the future. The Dennis. E. Harris diabetic foundation focus is on long-term environmental, social, economic and health impacts of human choices. It is our objective to build a state-of-the-art diabetic research institute for all things Diabetic. DEHDF will also design two sports and rehabilitation centers. These centers will serve to motivate all athletes with diabetes to improve their chances of gaining outstanding success at all levels of competition, from school-yard playing fields to Olympic sports.
ACTION
The Dennis. E. Harris Diabetic Foundation will also introduced certain lifestyle and community programs designed to prevent diabetes. These programs will be rolled out through extracurricular school session, community outreach, and followed up through bulk SMS messages. DEHDF will also motive and encourage everyone to schedule an appointment with either their primary care physician, nurse or local podiatrist to get their feet screened at least twice a year. This will ultimately prevent potential amputations.
PREVENTION
The Dennis. E. Harris Diabetic Foundation core objective is to prevent any type of amputation for all diabetics. Testing their blood sugar on a daily bases, checking their A1C every 6 months, exercising along with a healthy diet are all instrumental preventing a diabetic amputation. There are over 82,000 amputations performed on diabetics globally each Year. After an amputation, there Is a 50% chance of another amputation within 3 – 5 years. An a even more devastating statistics reveals that the 5-year mortality rate after an amputation (ranges from 39% – 68%).