Module 1 Flashcards
Social Status
- refers to a person’s rank or social position in relation to others
- One’s relative importance in society.
- affects our capacity to act and make choices
Ethnicity
- Racial or ethic differences often used to create social divisions and discriminatory practices.
- Ethnicity is not a biological category; but rather a social category based on an arbitrary characteristic (e.g. skin colour)
- Racial discrimination and exclusion result in poorer health status and outcomes.
Gender
Gender refers to roles, personality traits, attitudes, behaviours, values, relative power and influence that society attributes to females and males.
Education
- Increases employment oppurtunities
- Improves health literacy
- Equips people with coping skills
Higher Income
- More choice
- More easily obtain housing, appropriate nutrition, etc.
- Exercise more control over life
Socioeconomic Position
Social status, education, and income are all strongly associated with a person’s level of health, and are closely related.
Those with lower social position often lack the capacity to mitigate the health, social, and economic effects of diseases and injuries associated with socioeconomic positions
Social Capitol
- the capacity to mitigate issues through relationships, maintain them and form them, and use those relationships and benefit form them
- draw on people to help you in your situation
Social Cohesion
Sense of oneness. We are one as a society. Concept that we all share the same outcome. What happens to you, matters to me and vice versa.
SDOH Examples
Physical environment, working conditions, personal health practices
Biology
- Can influence but not guarantee good health
- Japanese children raised in LA had lower health than great grandparents in Japan
Coping Skills
The internal resources used to handle outside influences and pressures. The positive and negative ways we deal with a situation or problem.
- Dveloped in childhood
Child development
- Very important
- Poverty Cycle
- Healthy mother, healthy baby
Individual Choice in Health Promotion
- Pluralistic society that values individual choice
- Duty to Self
How to intervene?
Educate –> When lack of information is inhibiting individuals from behaving in their own best interests
Engineer –> redesingn or manipulate the environment to reduce risk and avoid harm to societal members
Enforce –> make rules and reguations regarding individual and collective behaviours
What option should be used to intervene?
- Least restrictive alternative
EDUCATION
