Physical Health United States Project #45173

Preventing Type 2 Diabetes with Health Literacy

Project Report | Oct 25, 2024
Preventing Type 2 Diabetes with Health Literacy

By Phil Harrington | Founder and CEO

Hello Everyone,

Many thanks for supporting our campaign!

In the past four months, we recruited a Diabetes Research Team made up of four members who are now approaching the completion of the initial research on an 18 title (see below) course on preventing Type 2 Diabetes with Health Literacy. In parallel with this, our six Learning Academy team members under the leadership of our Chief Learning Officer, Laura has been researching and developing the narrative and visual style of the 18 videos along with all other aspects of the program, weekly communications, patient advocacy and group support workshops and the collection of outcomes. Our three member YouTube team is doing the work of researching maximizing of our reach to be able to help as many people as possible. The program will be delivered over a four month period with weekly updates with videos via text or email and monthly patient advocacy workshops and support groups along with lifetime social media support.

Curriculum

What is glucose and why we eat more of it today
What are glucose spikes and how do they happen?
What is Insulin and how does it affect glucose spikes?
What effect do glucose spikes have on us?
How do glucose spikes make us sick?
What is sugar made of and all the forms it comes in?
What makes a fructose spike worse than a glucose spike?
What’s nonalcoholic fatty liver and what causes it?
What foods cause the smallest spikes
What foods cause the biggest spikes?
What foods should I never eat - sugars or all types (because of their spikes)
Is the order in which I eat foods important?
Vinegar before a meal flattens our glucose spikes
Exercise after a meal to flatten our glucose spike
How does fasting reduce glucose spikes?
What’s the best breakfast to eat to avoid spikes
When is it best to eat sweet foods and what types are best?
Why are Fructose spikes worse than Glucose spikes?

We are aiming to have our first four course titles/videos (each also with a) Transcript, b) Key Takeaway Handout and c) Quiz) completed by January and to launch the program during February online on YouTube and locally in partnership with partner organizations in Los Angeles and Northern Ireland.

We really appreciate your support of the program along with the amazing work of our team of volunteers. Please consider supporting us in the coming quarter as we work to launch the program.

Many thanks on behalf of all the Human Health Project Team,

Phil Harrington

Founder/CEO

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Jun 3, 2024
Human Health Project - Summer Health Campaign

By Phil Harrington | Founder and CEO

Hello Friends,

Many thanks to everyone who supported our 2023 Summer Health Campaign!

Since our last report, we have continued with our Understanding and Accessing the Healthcare System in Northern Ireland and Los Angeles which includes

1. Learning Academy: Webpage: https://humanhealthproject.org/hhp-learning-academy/ ) In addition to our existing 6 courses, we have created another 6 courses and are currently working on translating all 12 courses into multiple languages, starting with Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Polish and Ukrainian. Here are the titles of our new courses which we will release in the coming months:

Preventing Medical Errors
Building Your Healthcare Team
Approaches to Patient Advocacy
Understanding the Role of a Patient Advocate
What is an ePatient
Managing Opioids and Controlled Substance
Accessing Your Medical Records

In addition to our courses being available on our website, we are also focusing on leveraging YouTube's position as the second biggest search engine after Google with over 2 billion people visiting it each day. Our new courses will be tailor made for YouTube audiences and in this way with them being in multiple languages and with increased localization over time, we look forward to helping more and more people.

2. Peer-Led Patient Advocacy workshops, we have continued to hold monthly online workshops for Los Angeles (https://humanhealthproject.org/patient-advocacy-los-angeles/) and Northern Ireland (https://humanhealthproject.org/patient-advocacy-nothern-ireland/) and are working to expand our marketing to reach more people.

3. Real World Data: (webiage https://humanhealthproject.org/hhp-real-world-data-program/ ) we are in the process of changing the name of this program to "Shared Patient Information" and have decided that our next focus will be on non communicable diseases with Type 2 Diabetes, the first condition we are focusing on with the title "Preventing Type 2 Diabetes with Health Literacy" which is the title of our upcoming Summer Health campaign which we will be sharing with you shortly.

Many thanks again for all your amazing support, all of us on the HHP team really appreciate it!

Links: HHP Annual Report 2024

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Aug 30, 2023
Human Health Project - Summer Health Campaign

By Phil Harrington | Founder and CEO

Hello Friends,

Many thanks to everyone who supported our HHP Summer Health Campaign!

We launched the online version of our health literacy programme "Understanding & Accessing the Healthcare System" in this month of August and we are working on fundraising to be able to add in person workshops (with translations where relevant) and with phone as well as the current email support. All materials are at a reading age of nine. The workshop, includes modules:

“Your Rights as a Patient”
“How to Stand up for Yourself and Be Heard”
"Your Health Insurance Eligibility and How to Sign up and Renew it (in Los Angeles)
“How to Research Online as an ePatient”
“Where to Get Help"
Followed by a Q&A.

The workshops consist of a facilitated discussion about topics covered by the workshop presentation, in a setting that allows for participants to share their stories, experiences, and what has and hasn't worked for them. This creates a community for people to rely on and go back to after the workshop is completed.

Workshop follow up includes:

A phone number and email address which can be reached with questions
An email newsletter with a sample video and text copy of the workshop and answers to questions unanswered in it
"Train the Trainer" workshops to suitable workshop attendees, trained to give the program with follow up support including meetups in their local communities, supported by HHP on an ongoing basis
HHP Patient education video courses from the HHP Learning Academy
HHP Online Peer to Peer Panel Events set up by the HHP Online Events Team. Similarly, to the workshops, the Peer to Peer Online Panels, follow topics in a setting that allows for patients to share their stories, experiences.

Our 2023 Holiday Health Campaign will take place in the months of November and December. I will share information on it with you in the coming weeks.

Many thanks again for all your amazing support, all of us on the HHP team really appreciate it!

Links:

Understanding & Accessing the Healthcare System

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