Speaker
Brenda Onyango
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Abstract
The increasing prevalence of diabetes is a significant public health and policy issue. Fundamental causes like socioeconomic status which affect people’s access to health promoting resources are associated with racial disparities in diabetes prevalence and long-term management of this chronic illness (Hill-Briggs et al., 2021; O’Donnell, 2020; Weiss et al., 2020). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded insurance coverage for millions of Americans through Medicaid eligibility expansion. Since expansion, researchers across the social sciences have studied its effects on health outcomes for specific patient populations (Curto & Bhole, 2022). However, there are still questions about Medicaid expansion’s effect on racial disparities in diabetes management among adults. In this presentation, I provide an overview of an in-progress study comparing racial differences in diabetes management between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White adults between ages 19-64.