The Social Determinants of Health
The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where 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.
For this event, we are following these 5 domains of the SDOH, through a social justice lens:
This Social Determinant of Health focuses on the connection between the financial resources people have – income, cost of living, and socioeconomic status – and their health. This area includes issues such as poverty, employment, food security, and housing stability.
This Social Determinant of Health focuses on the connection of education to health and wellbeing. This includes issues such as graduating from high school, enrollment in higher education, educational attainment in general, language and literacy, and early childhood education and development.
This Social Determinant of Health focuses on the connection between people’s access to, and understanding of, health services and their own health. This includes issues such as access to health care, access to primary care, health insurance coverage, and health literacy.
This Social Determinant of Health focuses on the connection between where a person lives – housing, neighborhood, and environment – and their health and wellbeing. This includes topics like quality of housing, access to transportation, availability of healthy foods, air and water quality, and neighborhood crime and violence.
This Social Determinant of Health focuses on the connection between characteristics of the context within which people live, learn, work, and play, and their health and wellbeing. This includes topics like cohesion within a community, civic participation, discrimination, conditions in the workplace, and incarceration.
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