Social Determinants of Health
This refers to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
What are social determinants of health?
This concept means giving everyone a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
This is the lack of reliable transportation, which can prevent people from reaching doctors or grocery stores.
What is transportation insecurity?
The U.S. conducts this count every 10 years, which includes data that can be used for health equity work.
What is the Census?
This U.S. leader is remembered for connecting civil rights to health by calling health injustice “shocking and inhuman.”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Access to this service is a key social determinant and includes things like screenings and preventive care.
What is healthcare?
This U.S. law, passed in 2010, aimed to expand healthcare access and reduce disparities.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Individuals without this may avoid seeking care due to cost concerns.
What is health insurance?
This term refers to the practice of collecting data based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc.
What is disaggregated data?
This movement aims to ensure people have the right to make decisions about their own bodies and healthcare, including birth control and abortion.
What is the reproductive rights movement?
Living in a food desert most directly affects this aspect of health.
What is nutrition or diet?
Name one community-based strategy that can help reduce health inequities.
What is mobile clinics / culturally competent care / health education programs? (any acceptable)
Language barriers can lead to this issue during medical appointments.
What is miscommunication or misunderstanding of medical advice?
Lack of data for this group, often called “statistical invisibility,” is a major health equity issue.
Who are Native American / Indigenous communities?
This 2020 movement brought global attention to racial injustice, including disparities in policing and health outcomes.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Poor housing quality is linked to increased risk of this chronic respiratory condition.
What is asthma?
This federal agency runs the Office of Minority Health.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
Implicit bias in healthcare providers has been shown to negatively affect this demographic group’s maternal health outcomes.
Who are Black women?
This health metric measures the average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
This environmental disaster in Michigan brought national attention to unsafe drinking water in a mostly Black community.
What is the Flint Water Crisis?
This term describes the unfair and avoidable differences in health between different population groups.
What are health disparities?
This approach to public health research and policy centers the voices of impacted communities.
What is community-based participatory research (CBPR)?
Fear of deportation can prevent this group from accessing healthcare, even when eligible.
Who are undocumented immigrants?
This statistical concept means a factor that may influence both the exposure and the outcome in health studies.
What is a confounding variable?
These types of organizations often work at the local level to provide services, raise awareness, and fight for healthier communities.
What are community-based organizations (CBOs)?