Guest Lecturers Flashcards
What are the 5 domains of the social determinants of health
- Education access and quality
- healthcare access and quality
- Neighbourhood and built environment
- Social and community context
- economic stability
Is racism a domain of the social determinants of health
no, but is a social determinant of health and can be seen across many of the domains
The social determinants of mental health include factors that influence…
- health promoting environments and lifestyle
- active preventative care
- reactive mental health services
- Freedom from negative stressors
What are structural inequities
health disparities that are
1. unnecessary and avoidable
AND
2. unfair and unjust
True or false, 50% of mental health disorders have their onset before age 14
True
What age group are more likely to experience mental health and substance use disorders
15 - 24
What are 3 types of Life Course Health effects
- Latency
- Cumulative
- Pathway
What are latency effects
early life exposures that affect the probability of health expressions years or decades later, irrespective of intervening experience
What are cumulative effects
Multiple exposures over the life course that combine and accumulate to produce ill effects on health
What are pathway effects
Sequences of exposures or events that set individuals on trajectories of ill or well health
What does ACE stand for
adverse childhood experiences
What is biological embedding
The processes by which human experience alters biological processes in stable and long term ways that influence health over the life course
