Week Seven Flashcards
What is the greatest determinant of health?
Income and Social Status
What are the 12. Social Determinants of Health?
1) income and social status
2) social support networks
3) education and literacy
4) employment/working conditions
5) physical environments
6) biological and genetic endowment
7) individual health practices and coping skills
8) healthy child development
9) health services
10) gender
11) culture
12) social environments
Ways social support affect health:
Relationships are critically important to health
Social support = positive health outcomes
Men, single parents, lower income Canadians reported lower levels of support
Support can help you:
- decreasestress
- increasehealthybehaviours
How do employment and working conditions impact health?
• Significantly affects physical, mental, and social health
• Unemployed = reduced life expectancy and more health problems
• Healthy vs. Hazardous workplaces
• (2000) Survey found more than 1 in 4 Canadian workers believed their workplace was not healthy
Ways individual coping skills and behaviours affect health:
• Effective and positive coping skills
• Avoiding behaviours such as:
- Physical inactivity
- Poor nutrition
- Tobacco use
Three Conditions for Healthy Children
- adequate and equitable income
- effective parents and families
- supportive community environments
How is healthy childhood development a determinant of health?
Critically important life long health
Conception to six years of age - health during this time impacts rest of life
What percentage of a populations health status is attributed to the quality of available health services?
25%
What are the five kinds of health services
- Acute care
• Long term care
• Home care
• Preventative Services - Primary Health Care
A healthy social environment has these three things
Need to be FREE from discrimination
Need to work to END social exclusion
Absence of violence – in homes, schools and workplaces
What are the five things the CNA says nurses can do to address the determinents of health?
- consider determinants of health in treatment and follow-up plans
- know what community and health resources are available to clients
- ensure health promotion programs go beyond lifestyle and include health determinants
- advocate for universal access to basic programs
- bring awareness to decision makers of research linking socio-economic factors and health
What is social justice?
Social justice means the fair distribution of resources and responsibilities among the members of a population, with a focus on the relative poison of one social group in relationship to others in society as well as on the root causes of disparities and what can be done to eliminate them
What is advocacy?
• Acing in behalf of another person
• Speaking for persons who cannot speak for themselves
• Intervening to ensure views are heard
What are four ways nurses can advocate for patients?
• Protecting client’s rights and choices
• Providing information
• INFORMED consent
• Advocate for dignity in care
