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Black Lives Matter: tackling racial and ethnic inequalities in diabetes health care
Author(s) -
Seewoodhary Jason
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2338
Subject(s) - ethnic group , injustice , medicine , inequality , psychological intervention , race (biology) , health care , diabetes mellitus , health equity , gerontology , criminology , gender studies , nursing , public health , sociology , law , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , endocrinology
Half a century after Martin Luther King Jr declared ‘of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane’, race and ethnicity remains a barrier to accessing fair, just and equitable diabetes‐related care. This review will critically consider the evidence basis underlying this and discusses interventions used to eliminate such disparities. Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons.