SLIDE 2 Definitions
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⇾ Social Determinants of Health ⇾ The conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work,
play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. (Healthy People, 2020).
⇾ Health Disparities ⇾ Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or
- pportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially
disadvantaged populations. (CDC, 2016)
⇾ Health Inequities ⇾ Health inequities are avoidable inequalities in health between groups of people
within countries and between countries. These inequities arise from inequalities within and between societies. Social and economic conditions and their effects
- n people’s lives determine their risk of illness and the actions taken to prevent
them becoming ill or treat illness when it occurs. (WHO, 2018)
Current Conceptualizations of Social Determinants of Health
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Historical Understandings of Social Determinants of Health
"In 1906 the national black leader W.E.B. duBois challenged this bleak forecast and countered arguments
- f inherent black inferiority in The Health Physique of
the Negro American, proceedings drawn from an Atlanta conference on Black health. The conference findings pointed to the impact of environmental and social conditions on black morbidity and mortality rates. Commenting on the higher black rates, du Bois noted that "the present differences in mortality seem to be sufficiently explained by conditions of life." ⇾
Susan L. Smith: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America 1890-1950.
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So, What?
