The global diabetes epidemic and the nonprofit state corporate complex: Equity implications of discourses, research agendas, and policy recommendations of diabetes nonprofit organizations

摘要

Important insights have been gained from studying how corporate social actors - such as Big Tobacco or Big Food - influence how global health issues are framed, debated, and addressed, and in so doing contribute to reproducing health inequities. Less attention has been paid to the role of nonprofit organizations (NPOs), even when all too often NPOs actively contribute to these inequities through normalizing discourses and practices that legitimize establishment views, poor public policies and existing relations of power. Our study attempts to fill this gap by assessing the influence on global health inequities of major NPOs - specifically three disease associations - whose mission includes preventing type 2 diabetes (henceforth diabetes) or reducing inequities in the global diabetes epidemic.