Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Differences ◽  
The Social

This chapter introduces the type 2 diabetes epidemics of Japan and the United States, noting national differences in response to the epidemics among medical, public health, and patient communities. It summarizes the tradition of approaching medicine as a social enterprise in the social sciences, describes the organization of the book, and motivates its central theoretical and empirical questions.

Aging and Chronic Illness in Language and Sexuality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Peel ◽  
Sonja J. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Older People ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Social

An aging demographic in Western societies as well as globally has made public health issues, such as dementia, subject to hyperbolic metaphor such as “tsunami” and “time bomb.” This chapter reviews the state of knowledge regarding language, sexualities, aging, and chronic illness. In particular, the discussion focuses on discursive research from across the social sciences that furthers understandings of older people’s lives and experiences. The chapter highlights research that has focused on ageism and chronic conditions impacting older people (specifically, dementia and type 2 diabetes), including empirical research on these conditions, and on manifestations of heterosexism and heteronormativity in these contexts. Using illustrative examples that emphasize the intersection of discourse and issues that relate to aging, the chapter foregrounds this area as an important element of language and sexuality scholarship. Last, future directions for the development of research focusing on these topics are indicated.

scholarly journals A comparison of pathogenesis of Diabetes in China and the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 02018
Author(s):  
Hui Wen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Different Cultures

Diabetes Mellitus is a growing public health problem recent year. Diabetes has two main kinds: type 1 and type 2. Accumulating evidence suggests that genetic predisposition plays an important role in type 1 diabetes. This may be one reason that cause the difference between China and U.S. Within diabetes patients, more than 90% have type 2 diabetes. However, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in China and United States of America is quite different, with 11.6% and 13% in two countries, respectively. Two countries with completely different cultures and histories have such slight differences in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes. Based on this fact, this paper will introduce the pathogenesis of diabetes and how it differs between the two countries.

scholarly journals Aging and Chronic Illness in Language and Sexuality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Peel ◽  
Sonja J. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Older People ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Social

An aging demographic in Western societies as well as globally has made public health issues, such as dementia, subject to hyperbolic metaphor such as “tsunami” and “time bomb.” This chapter reviews the state of knowledge regarding language, sexualities, aging, and chronic illness. In particular, the discussion focuses on discursive research from across the social sciences that furthers understandings of older people’s lives and experiences. The chapter highlights research that has focused on ageism and chronic conditions impacting older people (specifically, dementia and type 2 diabetes), including empirical research on these conditions, and on manifestations of heterosexism and heteronormativity in these contexts. Using illustrative examples that emphasize the intersection of discourse and issues that relate to aging, the chapter foregrounds this area as an important element of language and sexuality scholarship. Last, future directions for the development of research focusing on these topics are indicated.

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Diabetes: Opportunities for Prevention Through Policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (11) ◽  
pp. 1425-1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali D Deshpande ◽  
Elizabeth A Dodson ◽  
Ira Gorman ◽  
Ross C Brownson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
United States ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Social

Over the past decade, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic levels in the United States and other developed countries. With a concomitant rise in obesity levels in the United States and advances in the treatment of diabetes and its complications, the prevalence of diabetes is expected to continue to rise through the year 2050. Despite strong evidence that regular physical activity can prevent or delay the onset of diabetes, too many Americans are not meeting the recommended levels of regular physical activity. Although most physical activity interventions to date have been focused on characteristics of the individual, more-recent studies have considered how changing characteristics of the social and physical environment in which people live may ultimately have a greater impact on increasing population levels of physical activity. Policy interventions are a way to make sustainable changes in the physical environment of a community and thus provide support for other intrapersonal and interpersonal behavioral change interventions. Policy changes also can affect the social norms that shape behavior. The purposes of this perspective article are: (1) to describe the rationale for population approaches to primary prevention of type 2 diabetes, (2) to discuss how policy interventions can increase physical activity levels within populations, and (3) to provide recommendations for the role of physical therapists in interventions that can increase the level of physical activity in communities. Public health approaches to curb the diabetes epidemic are urgently needed. Policy interventions to increase population levels of physical activity show promise for diabetes prevention. Physical therapists are uniquely suited to influence primary prevention efforts for diabetes.

1496-P: Clinical Inertia in Relation to Sociodemographic Factors among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in the United States

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1496-P
Author(s):  
GAIL FERNANDES ◽  
BAANIE SAWHNEY ◽  
HAKIMA HANNACHI ◽  
TONGTONG WANG ◽  
ANN MARIE MCNEILL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Clinical Inertia

scholarly journals An Attack on the Separation of Powers? Strategic Climate Litigation in the Eyes of U.S. Judges

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8335
Author(s):  
Jasmina Nedevska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Courts ◽  
Research Plan

Climate change litigation has emerged as a powerful tool as societies steer towards sustainable development. Although the litigation mainly takes place in domestic courts, the implications can be seen as global as specific climate rulings influence courts across national borders. However, while the phenomenon of judicialization is well-known in the social sciences, relatively few have studied issues of legitimacy that arise as climate politics move into courts. A comparatively large part of climate cases have appeared in the United States. This article presents a research plan for a study of judges’ opinions and dissents in the United States, regarding the justiciability of strategic climate cases. The purpose is to empirically study how judges navigate a perceived normative conflict—between the litigation and an overarching ideal of separation of powers—in a system marked by checks and balances.

scholarly journals Burden of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis among children with type 2 diabetes mellitus

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Parlett ◽  
Qinli Ma ◽  
Qian Shi ◽  
Geoffrey Crawford ◽  
Laura Herrera Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
United States ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alcoholic Steatohepatitis ◽  
Diabetic Children

AbstractThis claims-based retrospective cohort study examined the prevalence and incremental impact of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis among children with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the United States. Although diagnoses of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis were not common among diabetic children, it was associated with significantly higher incremental healthcare cost and risk of hospitalization.

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