The role of neighborhood inequalities on diabetes prevention care: a mini-review

Francesco Frigerio; Luca Muzzioli; Alessandro Pinto; Lorenzo Maria Donini; Eleonora Poggiogalle

doi:10.3389/fcdhc.2023.1292006

The role of neighborhood inequalities on diabetes prevention care: a mini-review

Front Clin Diabetes Healthc. 2023 Nov 15:4:1292006. doi: 10.3389/fcdhc.2023.1292006. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Francesco Frigerio^#¹, Luca Muzzioli^#¹, Alessandro Pinto¹, Lorenzo Maria Donini¹, Eleonora Poggiogalle¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

An emerging research niche has focused on the link between social determinants of health and diabetes mellitus, one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases in modern society. The aim of the present mini-review is to explore and summarize current findings in this field targeting high-income countries. In the presence of disadvantaged neighborhood factors (including socioeconomic status, food environment, walkability and neighborhood aesthetics), diabetes prevention and care are affected at a multidimensional level. The vast majority of the included studies suggest that, besides individual risk factors, aggregated neighborhood inequalities should be tackled to implement effective evidence-based policies for diabetes mellitus.

Keywords: T2DM; diabetes; inequalities; neighborhood; residence characteristics; social determinants of health.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. LD acknowledges the support of grant PE00000003 (decree 1550, 11.10.2022) ON Foods—Research and innovation network on food and nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security—Working ON Foods) from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (CUP D93C22000890001) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.