Diabetes in the Community

Chelsie Brown
#diabetescommunity

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention American Diabetes Association
Determinants of Diabetes My opinions and thoughts Determinants of Diabetes Determinants of Diabetes My opinions and thoughts
• Education • The determinants and influences • Race My opinions and thoughts • Weight • The most common reason
• Income/socioeconomic status in a person’s community heavily • Ethnicity • Race and ethnicity plays a big part • Fat distribution people forgo care for
• influences the probability of a • Education levels in the prevalence of diabetes. diabetes is costs. Limited
Occupation • Activity
diabetes diagnosis. People that • Native Americans are the most
• Food environment Income levels education and finances force
have little education are likely to inclined to be diagnosed with • Family history
• Healthcare affordability not know about this disease or
• (Centers for Disease Control and
diabetes. (Centers for Disease patients to be less compliant
Prevention, 2022) • Race with treatments and result in
• Race & ethnicity be able to understand the Control and Prevention, 2022).
• (Hill-Briggs, 2022) concept. People that have low- People with education that is less • Ethnicity nonadherence. Obesity is one
Measures influencing the health than high school are twice as likely
income rates and/or are • Age of the primary risk factors for
within the community to develop diabetes than that of
Measures influencing the health
uninsured are less likely to seek • Education developing diabetes. People
• Education level someone who has more education
healthcare due to the expenses. who have fat distributed
within the community • Race and Ethnicities than high school. People who are • Income
In rural places, healthy food mostly in their abdomen are
• Access to affordable health care • Income levels not well educated are likely to not • (Zgibor & Songer, n.d.)
options and access to
and specific diabetic services be health-literate. They will not at higher risk of developing
transportation are limited. • Awareness of diabetes
• Education and literacy levels in know the risks and consequences the disease. Sedentary
• (Centers for Disease Control and
the community associated with diabetes. Income Measures influencing the health lifestyles can cause obesity
Prevention, 2022)
Barriers that might exist levels effect a person’s ability to within the community
• Food access which causes diabetes.
• Low education and literacy levels #diabetessucks afford healthcare and treatments.
• Quality of education
• Rates of insured vs uninsured in the community Barriers that might exist
• Access to transportation • Transportation options Barriers that might exist
• Bias from healthcare professionals • Low Income
• Bias from healthcare due to adverse social • Low education level • Race and ethnicities • Little or no access to quality
professionals due to adverse determinants • Health illiteracy • Physical activity medical care
social determinants • Low income; unable to afford • Unawareness of interventions for • Age ranges • No means to pay for
• (Hill-Briggs, 2022) treatment and/or medications diabetes • Incomes of the people in the treatments and medications;
• (Hill-Briggs, 2022) • (Centers for Disease Control and
#diabetescommunity community poverty
Prevention, 2022)
• (Zgibor & Songer, n.d.) • Lack of knowledge and skills to
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/professionals/diabetes-
manage diabetes
discoveries-practice/the-social-determinants-of-health-and-diabetes https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/health-equity/diabetes-by-the-numbers.html
• Limited access to
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