What are SDoH?
-conditions people are born, grow, live, work, age
What is ex of personal behaviors?
-lifestyle and relationships
What are ex of psychosocial economic environment?
-unemployment, education, healthcare services and work environment
What are ex of physical environment?
-housing, agriculture, food production, water and sanitation, living and working conditions
What are ex of human biology?
-genetic predispositions
How much do different factors influence your health?
50% lifestyle
25% your healthcare
15% your biology
10% your environment
What influences your health?
-interplay between external factors, internal factors and SDoH
What are the benefits of focusing on the SDoH in populations?
-provides insight into health inequities to inform intervention
-inform upstream prevention
What is downstream prevention?
-treating health problem
What is upstream prevention?
-treat the cause of health problems before the arise
What did the article on income and health show?
-paper compared poorest and richest using 5 income levels to illustrate impact income on health (poor have worse health)
What were the gap minder four factors required for populations to become rich and healthy?
-time, trade, peace and green technology
How can health equity be achieved?
-identifying and addressing the SDoH
What is health inequity?
an inequality that is an unfair and avoidable systemic disadvantage
What is a health inequality?
-differences in health experiences or outcomes between different populations
What are advocacy changes?
-helps people gain fair treatment
-sometimes they advocate for one group with the expense of another
Tommy Douglas
Suffragate
Martin Luther King
What are health advocacy responsibilities?
patient needs, community needs, identify SDoH, health promotion
What is the health advocacy responsibility patient needs?
patient needs: respond to individual patient needs and issues as part of patient care
What is the health advocacy responsibility community needs?
respond to health needs of the communities that they serve
What is the health advocacy responsibility identify SDoH?
identify SDoH of a population that they serve, recall that by identifying and addressing the factors, health equity can be achieved
What is the health advocacy responsibility health promotion?
-promote health of individual patients, communities and populations
What are the different levels of advocacy?
-individual, community and global humanitarian
Individual level of advocacy?
making a difference for someone in need of assistance, visiting someone lonely