Exercise 2.5Diabetes affects a growing number of Americans. You have been invited to join a collaborative of community agencies interested in tackling diabetes from a community perspective. ?What resources will you use to identify different outcomes related to diabetes? ?What outcomes related to diabetes are of most interest to community members? ?How will you compare the outcomes you select to monitor at the local level with state and national outcomes?

 Diabetes is a major public health concern due to its prevalence, as well as, morbidity, mortality, and economic burden related to associated complications (Casagrande, Cowie, & Fradkin, 2017). According to the CDC (2017),more than 30 million Americans are living with diabetes mellitus andthe incidence of type II diabetes mellitus is on the rise with 1.5 million new diagnoses in 2015. In Florida, approximately 13.1% of the adult population have diabetes and an estimated 105,000 people are diagnosed with diabetes each year (Florida Diabetes Report, 2017). According to Curley and Vitale (2016), public health metrics and qualitative metrics are resources that can be used to understand and identify and measure a health outcome. With this information inmind, it is imperative that advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) working