Intro to SDOH

Question 1

What are the three drivers of the conditions of life?

Answer 1

1. political economy
2. conditions of life
3. health outcomes

Question 2

How are race and ethnicity involved with the SDOH?

Answer 2

Government policies have made an unequal society making bad conditions of life for many race and ethnic groups

Question 3

What is the conventional model of disease and reliance on the biomedical model of care?

Answer 3

Internal factors X external factors = DISEASE, biomedical model = emphasis on individual choice (don’t really have a choice though)

Question 4

What are the four reasons we don’t look upstream?

Answer 4

1. the health care system
2. individualism and the biomedical model
3. resistance and the tobacco playbook
4. government, politics, and the lack of political will

Question 5

What are the five social determinants of health according to Healthy People 2030?

Answer 5

1. neighborhood and built environment
2. working conditions and health
3. education access and quality
4. economic stability
5. social and community context