Journal
CURRENT DIABETES REPORTS
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
CURRENT MEDICINE GROUP
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-020-01332-w
Keywords
Immigrants; Diabetes management and control; Social determinants of health (SDoH)
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- NIH NIDDK P30
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Purpose of Review Relative to the US-born population, immigrants are less likely to successfully manage and control their diabetes, leading to a host of diabetes-related complications. This review draws on the social determinants of health framework (SDoH) to summarize the multilevel factors that shape diabetes care and management among immigrants in the USA. Recent Findings While the diabetes literature is replete with research on individual-level risk factors and health behaviors, empirical literature linking the SDoH to diabetes management among immigrants is limited. However, housing precarity, food insecurity, poverty, uninsurance and underinsurance, and limited support for immigrants in healthcare systems are consistently shown to deter diabetes management and care. Immigrants with diabetes face a multitude of structural constraints to managing their diabetes. More research that theorizes the role of SDoH in diabetes management along with empirical qualitative and quantitative studies are needed. Interventions to address diabetes also require a more upstream approach in order to mitigate the drivers of diabetes disparities among immigrants.
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