Theories and Frameworks
This concept can be described as discriminatory practices and policies that exist within and between state or non-state organizations
What is Institutional Racism?
This concept can be defined as a systematic separation of racial and ethnic groups
What is Segregation?
Resources that move through families and across generations
Generational Wealth
In Link and Phelan (1995), this concept is defined as social conditions which affect multiple disease outcomes, through many mechanisms. Their relationship to disease isn't eliminated by addressing intermediary mechanisms.
What is Fundamental Causes?
Discriminatory practices and policies enacted within state or non-state organizations versus discrimination in the social, political, and economic systems of society.
What is the difference between institutional and structural racism?
This concept helps us understand how various networks and systems can influence health and behaviors. It also assumes that the interaction between an individual and their environment is reciprocal.
What is the Socio-Ecological Framework?
This concept can be defined as a set of discriminatory practices which influenced housing, financial services, health care access, and resource allotment based on racial status.
What is Redlining?
Resources that were obtained during historic periods as a result of discriminatory practices on several levels and the operation of laws in the favor of a particular race.
What is Racialized Resources?
Fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income with respect to development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies
What is Environmental Justice?
- Lasting residential segregation
- Economic disadvantage
- Adverse health outcomes due to resource allocation and strategic disinvestment
What are examples of longitudinal impacts of redlining
This concept describes how high stress environments and traumatic events can impact a child's or adolescent's development.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
What is Health Equity?
The visible and invisible factors that influence health and set foundation for health in communities.
What is Structural Drivers (Social Determinants of Health)?
This theory describes how societal inequality in resource distribution leads to health inequities.
What is the Theory of Fundamental Causes of Health Inequities?
- Disruption of brain development
- Alters how brain responds to stress
- Increased association with chronic health problems
- Increased association with mental health disorders
What are the impacts of ACEs on child development
This concept examines how a person's life is shaped by a variety of factors, throughout their life.
What is the Life Course Theory?
This concept is defined as "the preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health". This negatively impacts disadvantaged populations
What is Health Disparities?
This hypothesis states that chronic exposure to social and economic inequities can lead to an accelerated decline in physical health outcomes
What is the Weathering Hypothesis?
Research that focuses on issues important to the community, involves the community in all aspects of the research process, and lifts up the experiential knowledge of community members alongside “professional” ways of capturing data
What is Community-based Participatory Research?
- Limited access to healthcare and education
- Increased access to pollution and poor living conditions
- Chronic Stress
- Increased access to poverty
What are the impacts of segregation on health?
This concept describes the confluence of health issues and increased health risks as a result of living in metropolitan spaces.
What is Urban Health Penalty?
This concept relates to a person or household's low access to resources that contribute to wealth or well-being.
What is asset poor?
What is the Index of Dissimilarity?
Place defines how we live, play, and die. It is key in defining our social life, experiences, and identity.
What is the importance of place?
Complex and collective traumas that impact groups of people over time. Passed down generationally and has negative impacts on health outcomes.
What are Adverse Collective Historical Experiences?