PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eduardo J Gomez
TI  - Institutions, crisis and type 2 diabetes policy in Venezuela
AID  - 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007174
DP  - 2022 Jul 01
TA  - BMJ Global Health
PG  - e007174
VI  - 7
IP  - Suppl 5
4099  - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/Suppl_5/e007174.short
4100  - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/Suppl_5/e007174.full
SO  - BMJ Global Health2022 Jul 01; 7
AB  - In a context of economic, political and humanitarian crisis, ensuring effective type 2 diabetes self-care management services in Venezuela has been an ongoing public health challenge. Repeated shortfalls in access to medicine, healthcare workers and food scarcity have hampered the ability of patients with diabetes to effectively manage their condition and receive the healthcare support that they deserve. With respect to methodology, the author relied on qualitative research methods, with a focus on in-depth document analysis. Primary and secondary document data sources were used through a systematic key word search in online search engines and library databases. While one may attribute these challenges in Venezuela to ongoing economic, political and humanitarian crisis, this article combines this perspective with health systems and institutional challenges that appear to have perpetuated and in fact worsened Venezuela’s diabetic situation. Specifically, a weakened healthcare system, fragmentation in diabetic primary care services and corruption in a context of ongoing humanitarian crisis have contributed to these ongoing challenges. Within humanitarian and political crisis conditions, future research on type 2 diabetic treatment and self-care management may benefit from combining perspectives in political science institutional theory and public health systems analysis to explain why governments in these settings continue to fall short of providing effective and equitable diabetic care.Data are available in a public, open access repository.