Emily Rose San Diego, PhD

Imagine two people who have just developed diabetes. One is a high-income-earner with a graduate degree. She can stroll down safe sidewalks to the grocery store, easily schedule doctors’ appointments, pick up prescriptions on time, and she regularly talks with friends and colleagues about how to manage her health. Another is an uninsured shift worker with two jobs. He lives miles from the nearest grocery store so usually grabs fast food for lunch. He rarely has time or money to take care of his own health, doesn’t know whether he can trust healthcare workers, and feels that there’s little he can do to change his condition.It is statistically far more likely that his diabetes will remain unmanaged and that he will develop long-term complications related to the disease.