Conceptualizing type 2 diabetes and its management.
Type 2 diabetes is growing worldwide due to population growth, increased rates of obesity, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity. Risk assessment methods can effectively evaluate the risk of diabetes, and a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce risk or prevent complications of type 2 diabetes. However, risk assessment alone has not significantly improved poor adherence to recommended medical interventions and lifestyle changes. This paper focuses on the challenge of nonadherence and posits that improving adherence requires tailoring interventions that explicitly consider the social determinants of health.
School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Peter
P
Tsasis
Centre for Disease Modelling, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jianhong
J
Wu
Department of Electrical Engineering of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Aijun
A
An
School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hannah J
HJ
Wong
Department of Electrical Engineering of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Manifold Data Mining Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
Xiandong
X
An
Manifold Data Mining Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
Zhen
Z
Mei
Manifold Data Mining Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ted
T
Hains
data mining and cluster analysis; nonadherence; tailored interventions; type 2 diabetes