scholarly journals Quantifying Direct Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah J. Walker ◽  
Mulugeta Gebregziabher ◽  
Bonnie Martin-Harris ◽  
Leonard E. Egede
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Glycemic Control ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Direct Effects

511-P: Treatment Burden, Glycemic Control, and Social Determinants of Health in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 511-P
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH A. ROGERS ◽  
SARAH T. MANSER ◽  
STEVEN ARRIAZA ◽  
MARK LINZER
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Glycemic Control ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Treatment Burden

scholarly journals Policy (Mis)Alignment: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal Communities in Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren A. Brooks ◽  
Francine E. Darroch ◽  
Audrey R Giles
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Health Decision

In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, education, and health care. Focusing our analysis on the Aboriginal population with the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes, First Nations, we argue that the ADI produces type 2 diabetes as a problem related to First Nations peoples’ apparently poor health decision making and lifestyle choices. Such a framing of the problem ignores the ways in which current federal policies are aligned in a way that undermines attempts, like the ADI, to improve First Nations peoples’ health. We argue that for rates of type 2 diabetes to decrease in First Nations communities, the federal government needs to re-align policies that affect all of the Aboriginal social determinants of health so that the startling inequities in health that exist between First Nations peoples and non-First Nations peoples, particularly those related to type 2 diabetes, can be addressed in a more effective fashion.

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