Abstract: Diabetes has become a significant threat to the livelihoods of many peoples. In order to address management practices for this chronic disease, there is a need to understand the cultural constructions of diabetes throughout developed and developing countries. In this work, I consider the Cambodian production of a diabetic patient and how the tools utilized by these patients construct the disease. In order to do this, ethnographic fieldwork was carried out with a Non-Governmental Organization based in rural looking at the use of technology and self-management routines and how this shaped diabetes for impoverished Cambodians. While strategies for diabetes management appear to be crude and lacking in knowledge and resources, I will demonstrate that impoverished Cambodians are more than capable of dealing with their disease. The benefit packages of existing social health protection schemes and services in the public health sector should be adjusted to cater for the needs of people living in rural Cambodia. Initiatives that offer active disease management strategies and promote patients and community participation appear more successful in increasing treatment adherence and decreasing the risk of financial hardship.
Keywords: Access to treatment, Diabetes Drug, Rural, Cambodia.
Title: Access to Treatment Drug for Diabetes Patients in Rural Cambodia
Author: Xu Huaifu, Keam Somony
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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