What are some of the other important social factors influencing diabetes care today? And why do those inequities remain so difficult for the healthcare systems to address?

Yeah, well, I did mention some of them.

So I think the idea of kind of material deprivation and poverty is one that's inescapable for people who are in that situation.

And as we mentioned before, kind of the current situation with inflation, lack of affordable housing, you know, things like property taxes being sky high, the decrease in social benefits I think is another big one that we often don't recognize and the fact that decisions have been made in our government to reduce the benefits available to people and to make things like AISH harder for people to get on and to reduce the limits on on how much rent people can charge people on social assistance those are all things that dramatically impact people's ability to manage their diabetes and take care of themselves so so there's that material side of things but there's also I think a lot of times we don't fully recognize the impact of some of the more invisible things to those of us in positions of power and privilege.

Things like racism and colonialism and trauma that deeply affect people who live with diabetes and other chronic health conditions and that impact their ability and their willingness to engage with us in the healthcare system.

So those are all things that I think are really important for us to recognize.

And in terms of why the healthcare system has a hard time addressing them, I think there's a couple of factors here.

What have you learned about why certain interventions succeed in socially disadvantaged populations while others fail to gain that traction?