Week 3: Social and Structural Health Determinants Flashcards
What are the social determiants of health
Factors that are constanly affecting health
Income
The most impactful factor
Leads to higher stress and poor coping skills
Education
Fromal education and healthy literacy
Employment
Job can be income and purpose while lack of job depression and lower self esteem
Employment conditions
Purpose, expression,
Childhood
Attachment, poverty, stressors
Food Insecurity
Food is vital to dignity and strong connections
What is social exclusion ?
- Sense of belonging positive impacts healthy behaviours
- Denial of opportunities and lack of access to social, economic reasources, cultural resources.
What is social safety
Governments funded programs and benefits and protect lifespan like paid services, employment
Health Services
- Public Health
- Types services
- Accessibility
Geography
- Urban/Rural
- Physical environment
Disability
- Relates to social exclsuion and unemployment
What are the structural determinants of health ?
- Expanded off of SDOH to encompass history, societal, economic, political
- Proximal, distal, and intermediate
Promixal determinant
-** Crown or leaves of tree**
- influence health in the most direct way
- Behaviours, employment, income , education, food insecurity
Intermediate Determinant
“Trunk of the tree”
- Influence health through systems that connect proximal and distal ends.
- health systems
- educational systems
