"The Diabetes Divide: Cities, Inequality and the Spread of a Disease"
Diabetes is a serious public health challenge: 29 million Americans have diabetes and 86 million more are pre-diabetic. Worse, the disease disproportionately strikes racial minorities, and trends show that diabetes prevalence is growing at an alarming rate in urban areas. How do socioeconomic, racial and geographic factors shape how the epidemic is being addressed in urban communities — and perceived by the general public? In a town hall event with community leaders, patients, public health experts, including Ronald Tamler, MD, medical director at the Mount Sinai Clinical Diabetes Institute, The Atlantic considered the social determinants of diabetes, and what they require of the response. Learn more.