Social determinants of health

 

After watching the videos in this weeks presentation please choose one question from below to discuss with the class.  You can include your thoughts/feelings of the videos watched.

1. How can we promote healthy behaviors?  What do you do?

2. How can we target dangerous conditions, such as hazardous waste sites, and ensure healthy spaces and places?

3. How can individuals protect themselves against health threats?  What do you do?

4. Which populations have the worst health?

5. What causes the unequal production and distribution of the conditions that promote and harm health?

Social Determinants of Health

HLE 2010 Summer

Professor Burke

What are Social Determinants of Health?
Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. (Healthypeople.gov 2020)

3 Lens to View & Interpret Health Outcomes and Social Inequities
Personal Responsibility
Unfortunate but Not Unjust
Nothing Can be Done

Questions to Ponder as you Watch the Series of Videos.
How can we promote healthy behaviors? What do you do?
How can we target dangerous conditions, such as hazardous waste sites, and ensure healthy spaces and places?
How can individuals protect themselves against health threats? What do you do?
Which populations have the worst health?
What causes the unequal production and distribution of the conditions that promote and harm health?

In Sickness and In Wealth
How does the distribution of power, wealth and resources shape opportunities for health?

When the Bough Breaks
Can racism become embedded in the body and affect birth outcomes?

Becoming an American
Latino immigrants arrive healthy, so why don’t they stay that way?

Bad Sugar
What are the connections between diabetes, oppression, and empowerment in two Native American communities?

Place Matters
Why is your street address such a strong predictor of your health?

Collateral Damage
How do Marshall Islanders pay for globalization and U.S. military policy with their health?

Not Just A Paycheck
Why do layoffs take such a huge toll in Michigan but cause hardly a ripple in Sweden?

Summing it all up
Personal Responsibility
Unfortunate but Not Unjust
Nothing Can be Done