In creating this Anthology, we spoke to 100 people with backgrounds ranging from policy experts to endocrinologists and from behavioral researchers to non-profit innovators. These conversations were crucial in helping to identify the programs we considered for inclusion. We also believe the interviews also offered extraordinary insights into prevention, workplace wellness, and healthcare teams of the future overall. This section shares the most valuable lessons that emerged from those interviews. In doing so, the section brings together, from a broad variety of perspectives, both the challenges and the opportunities in preventing, managing, and caring for type 2 diabetes.
Prevention
Prevention presents a massive opportunity to save both lives and money. In the United States, the direct costs of diabetes, not counting lost productivity and early death or disability, is nearing $200 billion per year and growing fast.
Workplace Wellness
While these conversations were crucial in helping to identify the programs we considered for inclusion in the subsequent section, we believe the interviews also offered extraordinary insights into workplace wellness overall. This section shares the most valuable lessons that emerged from those interviews. In doing so, the section brings together, from a broad variety of perspectives, both the challenges and the opportunities of health promotion in the workplace.
Healthcare Teams of the Future
Our interviews with experts in and around revealed challenges and opportunities in medical education and healthcare delivery, as well as what these might mean for people living with, or at risk for, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.