What has been preventing the emergence of a broad social movement on diabetes (and NCDs)? Insights from the mobilisation of diabetes patients' associations in Bamako, Mali

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ID15540739
AutoresJessica Martini (0000-0001-9276-7863, autor de correspondencia), Annick Tijou Traoré (0000-0001-8142-8110, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Céline Mahieu (0000-0002-6988-6458)
Año2021
Volumen17
Número11
Páginas2929-2945
Fecha de publicación2021-11-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-1692 • E-ISSN: 1744-1706
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17441692.2021.2005114
PMID34814787
OpenAlexW3216564400
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas65

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally. While international strategies for their prevention and control call for greater civil society participation, many observers regret the lack of a broad social movement to address these diseases. This study focuses on diabetes patients' associations engaged from 1991 to 2014 in Bamako, Mali, and explores what factors influenced their capacity to build a collective national movement to address this disease and shape policy reforms in this area. Our findings show that the emergence of such a movement was limited by several constraints. The focus of diabetes patients' associations on technical biomedical issues silenced the daily embodied experience of patients and reduced the use of human-rights approaches. Moreover, few financial, material and social resources coupled with a fragmented base limited the scope and strength of claims made by patients' associations to obtain treatment at reduced coasts. Finally, modes of actions performed failed to challenge more structural inequalities and imbalances of power. Exacerbated by limited political opportunities, these constraints weakened the associations' ability to drive policy change on diabetes. They reflect some of the current weaknesses of the global mobilisation to address diabetes and NCDs

Civil society · Development economics · Diabetes mellitus · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Public Health and Social Inequalities · Gerontology