DRIVE PROGRAM

Organizational Design, Culture, and Adaptation: DRIVE Program

Organizational Design, Culture, and Adaptation

Introduction

The paper on diabetes discusses the Diabetes Rewards Issued Via Everyone (DRIVE) Day. The purpose of this program is to provide easier access to diabetics, especially African-Americans. Communities with a lower socio-economic well being are less likely to take care of their health conditions. Therfore, this program has been initiated to empower those patients and provide them with the basic healthcare needs. The issues that led to the development and implementation of this program include the large population suffering from diabetes and their ignorance towards their health.

Discussion

Issues That Led to the Implementation of the Program

The major issue that led to the implementation of this vital program was the prevalence of diabetes. According to the study, diabetes has turned out to be a great hazard for the people of United States. According to researchers, Americans are living longer but not healthier (Vachon, Ezike, Brown-Walker, Chhay, Pikelny & Pendergraft, 2007). Although the average life expectancy is now greater than ever, the number of years that Americans can expect to live without type 2 diabetes is less.

"All the observed declines in life expectancy free of diabetes at the population level was due, in fact, only increases in diabetes in obese individuals," Dr. Cunningham and colleagues and his team.

Obesety is another major issue, which required the introduction of the DRIVE Day program. The fact that obese individuals were more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes in the early 2000 than in the 1980's may be because obese adults weighing more than 3.4% in the latter period, the researchers said (Coddington, Fischer & Moore, 2000). Another possible explanation is that those who are diagnosed with diabetes at an earlier age tend to fall prey to obesity. The younger the person, the more likely they are of becoming obese.

Life expectancy free of diabetes for American adults 18 years was 1.7 years older in the 1980s than it was during the period 2000 to 2004, for a woman, was 1.5 years higher in the early 1980. The proportion of adults 18 years diagnosed with diabetes at some point during their lifetime increased by nearly 50% in women between 1980 and 1989 and 2000 and 2004, almost double in men, explained Dr. Cunningham and his collaborators.

The program targets both type 1 and type 2 diabetes; both are chronic hyperglycemia. Type 1 diabetes occurs in younger people and often appears in childhood. It is becauseestruction ...