Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Literature Review

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Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a serious chronic health condition that affects a significant proportion of the Indigenous Australian population. Diabetes impacts Indigenous Australians at a younger age than their non-Indigenous counterparts and results in more serious health complications and earlier deaths (HealthInfoNet, 2015). According to the World Health Organization, the determinants of health are ‘the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These determinants are mostly responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries’ (WHO, 2016). This paper seeks to provide a review of the available literature exploring the connection between the social and environmental determinants of Indigenous Australian health and their impact on the health outcomes of people with diabetes, with a focus on remote Indigenous communities. Topics that will be explored include what defines communities are remote, the prevalence of diabetes type 2 in such remote communities and determinants of health such as employment and income, education, physical environment, social support and personal behaviours. The research conducted for this review was done by conducting desktop …show more content…

This review has attempted to explore the available literature in order to link these determinants with the known discrepancies in diabetes outcomes, in which Indigenous Australians fair worse than their non-Indigenous counterparts, and those in remote locations fair worse than those in urban settings. While there are numerous absences in the literature, this review has been able to provide an overview of the of the determinants of health that impact Indigenous Australians in remote communities living with

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