NACDD Action on Arthritis

NACDD’s Advancing Arthritis Public Health Approaches Project works with the CDC Arthritis Program and national partners to expand dissemination, delivery of, and access to arthritis-appropriate, evidence-based interventions (AAEBIs). The project also provides assistance to state arthritis programs to expand state-based efforts. Strategies include: working with partners to disseminate arthritis-appropriate, evidence-based interventions at low or no cost to employees at worksites, and working with American Physical Therapy Association chapters and physical therapy clinics to disseminate the Walk With Ease program.

NACDD Action on Lupus

NACDD and the Lupus Foundation of America, with funding from CDC, developed the first-ever National Public Health Agenda for Lupus 2015 -- A Blueprint for Action to prioritize a coordinated and multifaceted public health approach to lupus. The American College of Rheumatology, funded by CDC, collaborates with NACDD to develop sustainable strategies to support and build partnerships between State Health Departments and community-based organizations on lupus. Two community-based organizations were funded to implement select recommendations from state-based strategic plans.

The Big Bend Rural Health Network developed an effective partnership with the Florida Chronic Disease Director that included a lupus subcommittee to the Chronic Disease Coalition, a lupus module for inclusion in the 2019 BRFSS, and a compilation of hospital discharge and death data for addition to the Florida Charts website. The Georgia Council on Lupus Education and Awareness is building on an effective partnership with the Georgia Chronic Disease Director to develop a lupus module for inclusion in the 2019 BRFSS and to assess interest in telemedicine and provide training to specialty and primary care practitioners on the use of telemedicine for lupus diagnosis and treatment. Future implementation plans for both grantees include the development of a School Health Nurse Lupus Education Program, a Lupus Care Plan for students with lupus, a Child to Adult Transition Care Plan, and a Plan of Action for nationwide training of school health nurses in all states.