Beyond the Body: PhotoVoice

Équipe

Ananya Banerjee

Résumé

Beyond the Body captures the daily lives of 15 South Asian youth with a family history of diabetes. Through photography, the youth consider the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community and policy level factors that they feel impact diabetes risk and management in their communities.

The main goals of the PhotoVoice Project through our South Asian youth is to:

• Challenge the dominant perspective that blames South Asian individuals for being afflicted with diabetes and brings attention to the structural factors (low income, employment insecurity, low educational attainment, and poor living conditions) that put this racialized community at a higher risk.
• Inform government, academia, healthcare, social-service agencies and the broader public to think about the influence that public and health policies has on the risk of developing diabetes among the South Asian population.
• Bring attention to a specific policy in the provision of more diabetes prevention services such as the SAADAP for South Asian youth with a family history of diabetes using a social determinants framework.

Financement

CRSH 2020-2022