That, to me, is the interesting implication. It seems to me that when I look at maps of the city—I come from Toronto—you can map out instances of poverty in the city and you can map out instances of type 2 diabetes, and they correlate very highly. The question becomes, how much do people or are people able to control lifestyle? And what responsibility then falls on the rest of us to enable people to change their lifestyle, etc.? Or do we, collectively as a society, say, well, if this is true that one of the social conditions or determinants of diabetes is poverty, then what are the ethical implications of that for the rest of us and how do we govern that? We can't just say you have a problem and you're going to cost our health care system so start eating brown bread instead of white bread, or whatever the case is.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.