Social Prescribing Flashcards
What is the WHO definition of health?
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is the definition of a social determinant of health?
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
What is “food insecurity”?
The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
Name five social determinants of health
Food, Employment, Addiction, Childhood (inc. mother’s lifestyle), Transport, Gender, Peace, Sexuality, Poverty, Housing, Isolation, Environment, Ethnicity, Education, Disability, Indigenous status, Access to services
What is social exclusion?
Exclusion from the prevailing social system and its rights and privileges, typically as a result of poverty or the fact of belonging to a minority social group
What is social inclusion?
Social inclusion is the act of making all groups of people within a society feel valued and important.
The circumstances of the social determinate of health are linked to?
The distribution of money, power and recourses at local, national and global levels.
The social determinate of health are mostly responsible for…
…health inequities, which are the unfair and avoidable differences seen within and between social groups, regions and countries.
What is intersectionality?
The interconnected nature of social categories such as race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination, oppression, or disadvantage.
Can social determinants of health change?
Yes. Social determinates of health are constantly evolving, changing and compounding throughout a person’s lifetime.
It is possible to move in and out of different social determinate of health e.g. you can go from homeless to living in a flat.
What does it mean when another social determinate makes a situation worse?
The social determinate
What is social prescribing?
A mechanism for linking primary care patients with non-medical sources of support within their local community
What is social prescribing designed to do?
It is designed to expand the ‘treatment’ options available in primary care, address the social determinants of health, and enhance community well-being and social inclusion.
