“It Is a Full-time Job to Be Ill”: Patient Work Involved in Attending Formal Diabetes Care Among Socially Vulnerable Danish Type 2 Diabetes Patients

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110415
Author(s):  
Sofie á Rogvi ◽  
Ann Dorrit Guassora ◽  
Nina Tvistholm ◽  
Gitte Wind ◽  
Ulla Christensen

Previous research has shown social inequality in type 2 diabetes prevalence and that socially vulnerable type 2 diabetes patients benefit less than average from health services. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between February 2017 and March 2018 in a Danish specialized outpatient clinic, this article focuses on patient work among socially vulnerable type 2 diabetes patients. Through attending to the border zone between formal health care and self-care, we show that patients do a lot of work requiring skills, resources, and initiative, to access and benefit from formal care. This work is complex and implicit in the organization of care. Patients’ social situations, especially their employment situation, complicate getting patient work done. Attending to patient work and implicit tasks in care organization may help us to see how social inequality in type 2 diabetes outcomes develops, and may be combated.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Khadiza Begum ◽  
Fahmida Islam ◽  
Farjana Aktar ◽  
Murshida Aziz ◽  
Tohfa E Ayub Tahiya

Background: In recent times much is talked about of serum ferritin, an acute phase reactant a marker of iron stores in the body and its association with diabetes mellitus. Studies implicate that increased body iron stores and subclinical hemochromatosis has been associated with the development of glucose intolerance, type 2 diabetes and its micro as well as macrovascular complications. Material & Methods: This study was carried out to examine and to observe for any relationship between serum ferritin with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Our study populations were included 163. Among them 81 type 2 diabetes patients as a case (M=49,F=32, mean 44.68 age in years)and 82 normal healthy individual as a control ( M=35, F=47 , mean 34.71 in years). Results: Majority were healthy outpatients who had come for regular checkup and were matched with controls. Serum ferritin and FBS were estimated and other investigations. Results showed that although Serum ferritin was in the normal range value it was increased in type 2 diabetes patients than in controls and was statistically significant, we did get a positive correlation with duration of diabetes. It can be concluded that there were positive associations between serum ferritin and FBG, age, sex among study groups. Conclusion: In conclusion our study shows that there is significant correlation between increased serum ferritin in diabetes compared to individuals with normal blood sugars in this part and hyper ferritinemia may be one of the causes for development of insulin resistance before overt diabetes. Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Journal Vol. 11, No. 1: Jan 2020, P 7-10


Author(s):  
Ansumali Joshi ◽  
Priyadarshini Yonzon ◽  
Luna Thapa ◽  
Ritika Karki

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1158-P
Author(s):  
LI CHEN ◽  
LINGGE FENG ◽  
CUI TANG ◽  
YI ZHANG

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 536-P
Author(s):  
MICHAEL BLANKENBURG ◽  
CSABA P. KOVESDY ◽  
SELINE EISENRING ◽  
ANNE FETT ◽  
EMILE W. SCHOKKER ◽  
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Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1022-P
Author(s):  
ALEXIOS SOTIROPOULOS ◽  
ANASTASIOS KOUTSOVASILIS ◽  
ANASTASIA ANTONIOU ◽  
STAVROS BOUSBOULAS ◽  
THEODOROS PEPPAS

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 52-LB
Author(s):  
MAYSA SOUSA ◽  
ARITANIA SANTOS ◽  
MARIA ELIZABETH R. SILVA

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