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Table 2 Indigenous communities: drivers of type 2 diabetes

From: Diabetes and its drivers: the largest epidemic in human history?

“Western” view

Indigenous view

Bad behaviors

Dispossession of lands

Bad choices

Disharmony/Imbalance

Lazy

Poverty

Obesity

Socio-cultural change

 

“Toxic” external pressures

 

Transgenerational trauma

  1. With permission from Professor Alex Brown