Cultural primer for cardiometabolic health: health disparities, structural factors, community, pathways to improvement, and clinical applications

Postgraduate Medicine
Richard Kones, Umme Rumana

Abstract

The quest to optimize cardiometabolic health has created great interest in nonmedical health variables in the population, community-based research and coordination, and addressing social, ethnic, and cultural barriers. All of these may be of equal or even greater importance than classical health care delivery in achieving individual well-being. One dominant issue is health disparity - causes, methods of reduction, and community versus other levels of solutions. This communication summarizes some major views regarding social structures, followed by amplification and synthesis of central ideas in the literature. The role of community involvement, tools, and partnerships is also presented in this Primer. Recent views of how these approaches could be incorporated into cardiometabolic initiatives and strategies follow, with implications for research. Two examples comparing selected aspects of community leverage and interventions in relation to individual approaches to health care equity are examined in depth: overall performance in reducing cardiovascular risk and mortality, and the recent National Diabetes Prevention Program, both touching upon healthy diets and adherence. Finally, the potential that precision medicine offers, and ...Continue Reading

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