Module 5

Question 1

Individual risk factor vs. socioenvironmental risk factor?

Answer 1

Individual= biological, genetic, disability, gender
Socioenvironmental= stress, early life, social exclusion, work, unemployment, transportation, housing, access to services, low income

Question 2

What are the social determinants of health?

Answer 2

How the conditions in which people live and work directly affect the quality of their health

Question 3

Name the social determinants of health?

Answer 3

aboriginal status, gender, disability, housing, early life, income and income distribution, education, race, employment and working conditions, social inclusion/exclusion, food insecurity, social safety net, health services

Question 4

What was the significance of the White Hall study and what was it?

Answer 4

Showed the negative impact of stress on health,UK government worker was in a hierarchical structure and compared it to baboons in the wild. The ppl at the lower end of the pyramid had high stress jobs and ppl at the top didn’t have stress. 1990’s income quality/inequity.

Question 5

Barriers to Health promotion with socioenvironmental perspective?

Answer 5

• focus on biomedical approach
• neoliberal economic policies
• welfare states
• globalization and trade agreements
• human rights perspectives

Question 6

Ways to approach the barriers to health promotion?

Answer 6

Recovery from illness and rehabilitation
Concept representation and the media
Public understanding and the media
Evidence and policy in action

Question 7

What are the three dominant frameworks in social determinants oh health?

Answer 7

1. Materialist- quality of individual development, family life and interaction and community environments
2. Neo-materialist- conditions of living and social infrastructure
3. Psychosocial- hierarchy and social distance, public policies

Question 8

compare the three perspectives (epidemiological, sociological, political economy)

Answer 8

epidemiological- determinants of individual and population health
sociological- understanding the gap between knowledge and action
political economy- the political and economic structures

Question 9

What is the socioenvironmental model?

Answer 9

Individual lifestyle factors in the middle, social and community networks, and then general socioeconomoic cultural and environmental conditions on the outside

Question 10

What are some ways to improve the socioenvironmental perspectives of health promotion?

Answer 10

Focus on the source of problems rather than dealing with symptoms. Improving living conditions
Implementing policy from elected representatives that ensures good quality social determinants of health