Open AccessType 2 Diabetes as a Socioecological Disease: Can Youth Poets of Color Become Messengers of Truth and Catalysts for Change?
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Abbs,
Ryane Daniels,
Dean Schillinger
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
health promotion practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.483
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1552-6372
pISSN - 1524-8399
DOI - 10.1177/15248399211007818
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , sociology , public health , literacy , psychology , public relations , social psychology , medicine , political science , pedagogy , nursing
Efforts to confront the type 2 diabetes (T2D) epidemic have been stymied by an absence of effective communication on policy fronts. Whether art can be harnessed to reframe the T2D discourse from an individual, biomedical problem to a multilevel, communal and social problem is not known.