(2014), the determinants of health include: income and social status (income distribution), social support network, education and literacy, employment and working conditions, physical environment, biological and genetic endowment, individual health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, health services, gender, culture, and social environment (pp.6-10). These health determinants are interconnected and exert an influence on each other. Unfortunately, an observable trend in many poverty-affected households is a lack or near lack of some or most of these health determinants. To this end, this paper gives an overview of poverty (definition and risk factors), discusses diabetes (definition and risk factors), and integrates literature to show a connection between poverty and type two diabetes, with a focus on childhood or early adult onset of type two diabetes within the context of low social economic status. Finally, the paper provides some implications of poverty and childhood diabetes on nursing …show more content…
The incidence of T1DM seems more prevalent in Europe (United Kingdom, Russian Federation, and Germany) (International Diabetes Federation, as cited by Lewis et al., 2014). The disease result from progressive destruction of beta cells in the pancreas due to autoimmune processes in susceptible people. In these individuals, autoantibodies to the islet cells may cause a reduction of 80-90% of the normal beta cell function before hyperglycemia and other clinical manifestations may occur. Genetics and viral exposure are predisposing factors believed to contribute to the cause of type 1 diabetes but, it can also result from nonimmune factors of unknown cause (idiopathic) (Lewis et al.,