Culture, Ethnic, Lifestyle, and Diabetes

Authors

  • Windy Tri Yuana
  • Sri Widati
  • Oedojo Sudirham

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.17136

Keywords:

Culture, Ethnic, Life Style, and Diabetes.

Abstract

Diabetes is a social health problem that is large with special attention in the community and among
individuals. Nevertheless, the efforts to spread paradigm of health society to inputsocial determinant of
health including analysis and contextual of social factors that are considered out of the scope of the health
research is seldom conducted. As a result, the conceptualization of dynamic health inequality of diabetes
is superficial. By using a holistic anthropologist lens has the potency to offer insight intothe character of
socialdeterminer which is wider. The individual factor that is traditionally focused on the health of society and
qualitative exploration structural, deeply local context, social environment, and culture, and their interaction
and intersexuality, as the key factors, while considering how to reach alterations. The systematic study aims
to describe that culture, ethnicity, and lifestyle have much impacton the patients of diabetes mellitus. The
method of the systematic study is the article’s investigations which are listed by PubMed with the keywords
“culture, ethnic, lifestyle, and diabetes”. Twenty-nine articles are got from the result of an investigation and
after a selection has been done and got five articles to be analyzed furthermore. The result of the review of
the literature study shows that culture, ethnicity, and lifestyle are able to influence the case of diabetes illness
to the individual or group. On a certain ethnic group besides economic problem, the characteristic ofcertain
body starts from size and shape of the body make someone can suffer from diabetes, in addition,the motoric
activity of the body and physical activity can influence the case of diabetes.

Author Biographies

  • Windy Tri Yuana

    Researchers at Tanah Bumbu Unit for Health Research and Development, National Institute of Health Research and Development, Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan 72171, Indonesia, Master’s Student, 
    Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, Faculty of Public Health,Universitas Airlangga,
    Surabaya 60115, Indonesia

  • Sri Widati

    Senior Lecturer,Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, Faculty of Public Health,Universitas Airlangga,Surabaya 60115, Indonesia

  • Oedojo Sudirham

    Senior Lecturer,Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, Faculty of Public Health,Universitas Airlangga,Surabaya 60115, Indonesia

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Published

2021-08-16

How to Cite

Culture, Ethnic, Lifestyle, and Diabetes. (2021). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 15(4), 2870-2879. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.17136