"A Hierarchy of Needs for People With Diabetes"

Earlier today, I posted a tweet in response to an Eli Lilly tweet that mentioned equity and fairness.

Lilly is committed to ensuring pay is administered equitably across our workforce – today, on #EqualPayDay - and every day. https://t.co/DhLQHWOsfl #WeAreLilly #BeGenderFair

— Eli Lilly and Company (@LillyPad) April 10, 2018

This is good but could you also focus a little more on the bottom parts of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? People are dying because they can't afford your insulin.

Talk about fairness and equity...how about fair pricing for insulin? #insulin4all https://t.co/vl8urHbr7T

— MTL (@MTL613) April 11, 2018

Laura Marston suggested an amazing idea for a cool advocacy graphic, based on that tweet.

I propose “@MTL613’s Hierarchy of Needs for People with Type 1 Diabetes”. Just saying. It’d be cool to post a graphic like that.

— Laura Marston (@Kidfears99) April 11, 2018

So...I went ahead and made one, with some input from @iamsqueeisback and others :-)

I present: "A Hierarchy of Needs for People With Diabetes."

(Adapted from https://t.co/y7ySZAgtNZ, with permission. @iamsqueeisback helped with ordering the layers of the pyramid.) #insulin4all pic.twitter.com/VmPP15T1sB

— MTL (@MTL613) April 11, 2018

This image is adapted from FireflySixtySeven's original .svg creation for Wikipedia, depicting Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. (Thank you, Psychology 101 🤓😎.) That image was shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which means that I can share and adapt the image, as long as I give appropriate credit, indicate whether changes have been made, and release the image under the same license as the original. Done, done, and done ;-)

Get in touch with me by Twitter or blog comments (I should get an email notification for those, but I don't think that anyone has left a comment here, yet) if you want the .png file, or my .svg file.

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[Update: 6/22/2018]
I was very gratified when Renza informed me that this image was being used at the 78^th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Orlando. I thought that was so cool!! 🤓

Thanks also to Amy Tenderich for using it with attribution.

Hey @MTL613, you’re on the big screen at #DData18! pic.twitter.com/KsMtk6ZOgY

— Renza / Diabetogenic (@RenzaS) June 22, 2018

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[Update: 3/20/2019]

It has come to my attention via Twitter that another hierarchy of needs for diabetes was previously created in 2013 (full paper here).

 

I truly appreciate the friends (Melinda Wedding in particular) who stood up against possible plagiarism on my behalf. Thank you! 💙