Structural Determinants Of Heath

Question 1

What are the social determinants of health?

Answer 1

Conditions in which people are born, grow live work and age
- these conditions are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at a global, national and local level

They are mostly responsible for health inequities in the world

Question 2

What are primary examples of SDOH?

Answer 2

Neighborhood and surrounding environment

Health and health care

Social community and the context within

Education

Economic stability

Question 3

What are the top 3 most reliable DSM-5 diagnosis between psychiatrists and the top 3 least reliable?

Answer 3

Top 3 most reliable (very likely different psychiatrists can get the same diagnosis)

• 1) PTSD and major neuro cognitive disorders
• 2) somatic symptom disorders
• 3) bipolar 1 disorder

Top 3 least reliable (very likely different psychiatrists can get different diagnosis)

• 1) antisocial and OCPD disorders
• 2) MDD
• 3) generalized anxiety and mixed anxiety-depressive disorder

Question 4

Henrietta lacks

Answer 4

A case where doctors took this women’s cells without asking and launched a medical revolution with them, without telling anyone about it.
- eventually family found out and was appalled

Question 5

J. Marion sims

Answer 5

Founding neurosurgeon who use to work on slaves

Question 6

Racial dichotomy in schizophrenia

Answer 6

Black Americans are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia vs whites
- are also more likely to gen 1st-gen antipsychotics vs 2nd gen

Question 7

Incarceration and effects on SDOH

Answer 7

Incarceration is a way to get competence and voting rights abolished
- coincidently, black Americans are far more likely to be incarcerated than white men and all other races combined

Question 8

Countertransference

Answer 8

The subconscious ability of one to project bias onto another without actually taking a neutral stance first and talking with them
- is an issue in SDOH