Diabetes Pro Quarterly - Fall 2020 - 14

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Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes:
A Scientific Review
Research addressing the prevalence, economic costs, and
disproportionate population burden of diabetes all demonstrate
the need for a clearer understanding of the effects of social
determinants of health (SDOH). For that reason, the American
Diabetes Association (ADA) convened a committee, pre-pandemic,
to review and report on the literature on SDOH and diabetes.
With the goal of advancing opportunities for improvements in
diabetes population health in the United States, the SDOH and
Diabetes writing committee reviewed literature on associations
between SDOH and diabetes risk and outcomes, as well as
reports on the impact of various interventions to improve
SDOH on diabetes outcomes. The group focused its search
on U.S.-based studies of adults with diabetes and five SDOH:
socioeconomic status, neighborhood and physical environment,
food environment, health care, and social context.

The committee identified a fairly limited amount of U.S.-based
research on the impact of diabetes interventions designed to
target income, occupation, toxic environmental exposures, social
cohesion, and social capital and emphasized in its report the need
for more uniform reporting of such findings. The report includes
recommendations to fill gaps in research and outlines key SDOH
definitions and metrics to establish a system for more consistently
describing outcomes and reporting quantitative outcomes in
meta-analyses. The review concludes with recommendations from
national advisory committees regarding linkages across health
care and community sectors, as well as suggestions for future
research to better inform clinical practice.
The report has been published with free access online ahead of
print at doi.org/10.2337/dci20-0053 and will appear in the
January 2021 issue of Diabetes Care, available in print and online
at care.diabetesjournals.org on December 21.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS: Editor-in-Chief, Diabetes
THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION IS SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF POSITION
OF DIABETES®, THE ASSOCIATION'S FLAGSHIP RESEARCH PUBLICATION.

The appointment is for three years, with a possible
two-year extension. Applicants are asked to
nominate 12-16 Associate Editors to assist with
the development and review of content published in
the journal. The new Editor-in-Chief and Associate
Editors will convene in the summer of 2021 to begin
inviting articles and reviewing new submissions for
the January 2022 and later issues.
Diabetes publishes original research about the
physiology and pathophysiology of diabetes. Submitted
manuscripts can report any aspect of laboratory,
animal, or human research. Emphasis is on
investigative reports focusing on areas such as the
pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications,
normal and pathologic pancreatic islet function
and intermediary metabolism, pharmacological
mechanisms of drug and hormone action, and
biochemical and molecular aspects of normal and
abnormal biological processes. Studies in the areas
of diabetes education or the application of accepted
therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to patients

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with diabetes are not published. Diabetes is a monthly
publication.
The American Diabetes Association provides
administrative and salary support to the Editorin-Chief's institution, as well as honoraria to the
Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors. The Association
maintains its own Editorial Office and staff to manage
the peer-review system and process.
Interested parties should request an application form,
which must be completed and returned by February 1,
2021. Curriculum vitae of the applicants for Editor
and Associate Editors should be included.
PLEASE ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO:

Christian Kohler
Associate Publisher,
Scholarly Journal Publishing
American Diabetes Association
ckohler@diabetes.org

diabetes.diabetesjournals.org

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