SDOH
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age
What are the social determinants of health?
This book written by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn was transformed into a popular movie that showcased the forms of oppression of women in many countries and the resiliency of women to share their stories.
What is Half the Sky?
This residence hall is where GPH Scholars live in for their living-learning community and make friends for life!
What is Centreville Hall?
The two most common mental health disorders are mood disorders and this.
What is anxiety?
This public health concern encompasses people's inability to access affordable and nutritional food because of their location.
What is food insecurity?
The category of SDOH that incorporates data on high school graduation rate and literacy.
What is education?
This health indicator is the number of deaths that occur in the first year of life per 1,000 live births.
What is infant mortality rate (IMR)?
She is the fabulous and inspiring program director for the Global Public Health Program.
Who is Dr. Maring?
This mental health disorder involves the reliving of a traumatic event in one's mind, causing a change of behavior. It is especially faced by war veterans but is not limited to that group of people.
What is PTSD?
This Global goal for 2030 works to end hunger by all people and ensure nutritious and sufficient supplies of food.
Differences in health outcomes that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, and unjust.
What are health inequities?
This group of women are almost 4 times more likely to die during or soon after childbirth than Caucasian women.
Who are African American women?
This location is where our class of GPH Scholars did their Service Day and had the opportunity to meet their peers the first weekend on campus?
What is Second Chance?
A barrier to why many people do not seek help for their mental health concerns.
What is stigma?
These 5 food groups are incorporated on the MyPlate dietary guideline accepted by the US Department of Agriculture.
In the category of economic stability, this is an indicator of one's standing in society that incorporates one's wealth through social, economic, and educational characteristics.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
This violation of human rights involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia causing severe pain, health risks, and trauma.
What is female genital mutilation?
This group of people helps to welcome new freshmen into the GPH program, provide a helping hand for all of their needs, and plan fun events to unite the Scholars community.
Who are peer mentors?
This mental health concern is a brain disorder faced by older adults that impairs their memory, thinking, and ability to carry out everyday tasks.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
It's definition is malnutrition resulting from deficiencies in the amount of food or types of nutrients eaten or from poor absorption of the nutrients that have been consumed.
What is undernutrition?
An example of an intervention in this category would be to have a community clean-up day on Earth Day where garbage is picked up and new trees are planted.
What is neighborhood and built environment?
Edna Adan started her own hospital in this country to try to address the major public health issues of maternal and infant mortality and lack of access to health professionals.
What is Somaliland?
Our class of GPH Scholars visited this museum in DC for one of their field trips, where students learned about journalism and how current events have been portrayed throughout the years in different exhibits (also my personal favorite!)
What is the Newseum?
As college is a difficult time for many students, as well as staff, as they manage stress and continue to learn about themselves, these two locations on campus are resources for mental health concerns.
What are the University Counseling Center and the University Health Center?
An inappropriate consumption of food with proper nutrients can cause low height for a given age, also known as this, affecting 1 in 4 children worldwide.
What is stunting?