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Diabetes and Poverty

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Anonymous.

Check out this map of Toronto that powerfully demonstrates the overlap between diabetes prevalence and neighbourhood poverty.

http://www.thestar.com/staticcontent/772097

 

See also this new report by Toba Bryant and Dennis Rapheal:
Type 2 Diabetes: Poverty, Priorities and Policy
The Social Determinants of the Incidence and Management of Type 2 Diabetes

http://tinyurl.com/ycysb9l

Poverty represents a serious but reversible threat to the health of Ontarians. As health providers we enjoy privilege and access to power which many others do not. As a high-impact health intervention, we will work to eliminate poverty.