Beyond Individualised Approaches to Diabetes Type 2

Bibliographic Data

ID12911908
AuthorsClaire Williams (0000-0002-0791-744X, corresponding author), Claire R Williams (0000-0001-5467-149X, Flinders University, corresponding author), Barbara Buttfield (Flinders University)
Year2016
Volume10
Issue6
Pages491-505
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12369
OpenAlexW2418306935
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited96

Explanations for type 2 diabetes are broadened beyond the individual body and ‘bad lifestyles’ to include major institutions, the social and material contexts of food and eating, and employment. Precarious employment, a social determinant of health, encourages changes to food practices, lowers working conditions, worsens health, can bring poverty and increases shift work, a causal risk factor for diabetes. Scientists have played a part in revolutionising foods and technologies which minimise labour and movement. There are excess additives in processed food. Genetic explanations for the higher rates of diabetes in First Nations peoples give way to social explanations: colonial history, British/Euro‐American cuisine, food insecurity, trauma and social conditions resulting in chronic stress. Self‐management education takes a ‘nutritionist’ approach towards food and eating and tends to minimise the social context and skills of those with the condition particularly women workers in poorer social groups who have higher rates of diabetes (T2DM)

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Diabetes mellitus · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Nutritionist · Poverty · Social stress · Sociology · Type 2 diabetes · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Gerontology