HEALTH SCI 1002

Studied the effects of poor housing/clothing/diet and lack of sanitation led directly to infections and diseases associated with early death among working class people as indicated by SDoH.

Health threatening living conditions are rooted in public policy making/politics play a large role in promoting health and preventing disease.

Identified human biology, environment, lifestyle and health care organizations.

Term "social determinant of health" coined/income, resource distribution, stress from unemployment and insecure employment.

Lowest employment level groups show a greater likelihood of a range of diseases and premature death from illness/injury at every stage of the life cycle.

Goal of government policy: reducing inequalities between income groups.

Advocating for healthy public policies as the number 1 strategy to affect SDoH.

Lowest employment group shows greater likelihood of diseases and premature death from illness and injury despite universal health care system. Focuses on poverty and the clustering of indicators together.

Income/social status, social support networks, education, employment/working conditions, physical/social environments...

Poverty as having a profound influence on health and needs to be reduced.

Explain how nations differ in overall population health/US low, Norway high.

Education, income, employment conditions, etc.

Economic, political, social.

Created broader SDoH: inequalities in housing, education, social acceptance, employment translate into disease-related processes.

Prerequisites for health: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equality.

Living and working conditions arch: agriculture, food production, education, work environment, unemployment, water/sanitation, health care services and housing as contributors to health.

Various determinants: income, social status, physical/social environment, biology, genetic endowment, personal health practices, coping skills, healthy child development, health services, gender, culture. Criticized for lacking grounding in concrete experiences of people's lives and policy relevance.

Social gradient (class), stress, early life, social exclusion, work, unemployment, social support, addiction, food and transport. Avoids the problem of policy irrelevance.

Socioeconomic status, transportation, housing, access to services, discrimination by social grouping.

Advancing Canadians' understanding concerning SDoH, provide support for efforts to improve distribution of SDoH, etc.

The way identities/social positioning intersect to create unique experiences of both privilege and oppression.

Posited that economic development can only be achieved by modernizing economies.

Proposes there is a positive association between personal income and health, association is non-linear.

Proposes that income between a certain deprivation threshold is adverse for health, but once past this threshold, there are minimal gains to be made.

Situates the problem in individual choices. Seen as factors responsible for development and death from diseases.

Situates problems in material conditions. How choices are determined or influenced by material contexts.

How living conditions shape health.

How living conditions affect health and how they come about. What affects the quality and distribution of social determinants.

How we compare ourselves and lives to others and how these comparisons affect our health and wellbeing.