Diabetes Care Inequities: Recent Advances and Future Challenges
A special issue of Diabetology (ISSN 2673-4540).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite progress in diabetes prevention and care, significant inequities persist across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic lines. In this Special Issue of Diabetology, we invite researchers to submit contributions that identify and address the complex factors contributing to these inequities through research, policy, and practice. We welcome original articles, reviews, and implementation studies, including those using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to social and structural determinants of health, community-based interventions, patient-centered care models, healthcare access and delivery, and policy-level strategies. We especially encourage submissions focusing on underserved, marginalized, or high-risk populations, such as those affected by structural inequities, limited healthcare access, and socioeconomic disadvantage. We are also interested in work that offers actionable insights to inform more equitable diabetes care and reduce population-level gaps in outcomes. By drawing attention to both progress and ongoing challenges, this collection seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of diabetes disparities and highlight practical strategies needed to overcome them in research, practice, and public health.
Prof. Dr. James E. Bailey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health equity
- diabetes prevention
- diabetes management
- implementation science
- diabetes disparities
- health service innovation
- public health interventions
- quantitative
- qualitative
- mixed-methods
- social determinants of health
- community health workers
- motivational interviewing
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