Downloaded 1,611 times
Uploaded byDr. Anees Alyafei
Social determinants of health
The document discusses the determinants of health, which are defined as the conditions that influence individual and population health, including social, economic, cultural, environmental and lifestyle factors. It outlines the key components of determinants, including socioeconomic status, living/working conditions, social support networks, and individual factors. The document explains why understanding determinants of health is important for public health efforts aimed at health promotion and disease prevention.
In this document
Powered by AI
Overview of health determinants, their definition and components, and importance of understanding them.
Definition of health as a multi-dimensional concept beyond mere absence of illness.
Definition of health as a multi-dimensional concept beyond mere absence of illness.
Definition of health determinants related to social, physical, economic environments and healthcare access.
Various components like socio-economic, political, cultural, environmental, and living conditions affecting health.
Impact of job types, healthcare services, and access on health, illustrated by historical examples.
Importance of social networks and family support in health management and emotional well-being.
Role of aging, socio-economic factors, and lifestyle in determining health outcomes.
Determinants' role in health status variance, interaction, and the need for advocacy in health promotion.
Group exercise prompts focusing on health policy, environmental factors, and gender-related health issues.
More Related Content
Similar to Social determinants of health
More from Dr. Anees Alyafei
Social determinants of health
- 1. Determinants of Health PreparedBy Dr. Anees AlSaadi CMT-P R4 December 2013
- 2. Determinants of Health Determinantsof Health
- 3. Determinants of Health Outline: •Concept of Health. • Determinants of Health Definition. • Determinants of Health Components. • Why Determinants of Health are Important? • Practical Exercise.
- 4. Concept of Health. Whatis the Definition of Health ….?
- 6. “Health is Multi-dimensionalConcept that Transcends the Mere Absence of Illness”
- 7. Determinants of HealthDefinition Conditions in the social, physical and economic environment in which people are born, live, work and age, including the access to the health care.
- 8. Determinants of HealthDefinition Dahlgren and Whitehead Rainbow (1991)
- 9. Determinants of HealthComponents General • • • • Socio-economic Political Cultural Environmental Conditions Living and Working Conditions • • • • • • Housing Health Care Services Work / Unemployment Education Water and Sanitation Agricultural And Food Social Community Network Individual & Life Style Factors • Family Support • Participation with Governmental Processes • Age • Sex • Constitutional Factors
- 10. Determinants of HealthComponents General Cultural: Health is affected by traditions and beliefs of the family community.
- 11. Determinants of HealthComponents General Cultural: Health is affected by traditions and beliefs of the family community.
- 12. Determinants of HealthComponents General Socio-economic
- 13. Determinants of HealthComponents General Socio-economic
- 14. Determinants of HealthComponents Living and Working Conditions Working / Unemployment: Type of work may be related to occupational diseases and stress. Unemployment may be lead to financial instability, inaccessibility to health services and others.
- 15. Determinants of HealthComponents Living and Working Conditions Health Care Services: The historical decline in tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1840– 1970, showing the timing of critical discoveries in understanding the disease
- 16. Determinants of HealthComponents Living and Working Conditions Health Care Services: Introduction of EPI Major changes in Services provision
- 17. Determinants of HealthComponents Living and Working Conditions Health Care Services: Accessibility: Preventive, promotive and Curative. – Availability. – Cost. – Communication and Knowledge. – Geographically.
- 18. Determinants of HealthComponents Social Community Network Family Support: Mrs. Sulawesi lacks a supportive social network. – No communication. – Alone in a strange place. – Different culture and backgrounds.
- 19. Determinants of HealthComponents Social Community Network Family Support: – It is a source of emotional reassurance. – Safe place for a person to discuss his problems. – Information and practical support, such as knowing someone who can assist in a time of need. – Making healthier behavior choices.
- 20. Determinants of HealthComponents Individual & Life Style Factors Age: • Increase in the number of elderly.(2020/ 1 billion) • Two-third in developing countries. • Increase prevalence of Chronic Diseases and disabilities.
- 21. Determinants of HealthComponents Determinant Health Impact A good health will be result of: General Socioeconomic, Cultural and Environmental • Social equality: equal access to health care. • National security: economic, political and military security. • Social stability. • Income and social class: • higher income: more access to health care, nutrition, housing, more healthy behavior and more social network.
- 22. Determinants of HealthComponents Determinant Health Impact Living and Working Conditions Physical environment: • Safe water. • Healthy Food. • Clean Air Food and agriculture: • Tobacco farming • Chemical use and pesticide use. • Access and distribution of food. • Food safety and food borne illness hazards: Salmonella, campylobacter, E.Coli O157, Hepatitis A and heavy metals.
- 23. Determinants of HealthComponents Determinant Health Impact Social and community Network Better physical and psychological wellbeing result with: • Greater Support from families, friends and communities. • Participation in economically and socially active activities. • Participation within governmental processes.
- 24. Determinants of HealthComponents Determinant Individual & Life Style Factors Health Impact • • • • • • Aging. Inheritance and Genetic susceptibility. Brain growth. Early life exposure to risk factors. Economic and educational level. Life style: smoking, physical activity, coping with stress and alcohol consumption.
- 25. Why Determinants ofHealth ? Direct Impact on Health Interact With Each other to Produce Health Determinants of Health Structure Behaviours. Predict Greatest Proportion of Health Status Variance.
- 26. Why Determinants ofHealth ? Health promotion is fundamentally concerned with action and advocacy to address the full range of potentially modifiable determinants of health.
- 27. Why Determinants ofHealth ? They are the root of the problems so it gives us what strategies should be used in HP to promote health or prevention of diseases.
- 28.
- 29. Practical Exercise Group 1:Write on how policy making as a determinant affects the health by giving an example of a policy with public prevention effect. Group 2: Write on how the environment, as a determinant, affects the health giving examples of disease or complication related to environmental exposure. Group 3: Write how gender affects health giving clinical examples on conditions related to the gender.