The Basics
An event, characteristic, or other factors that brings about change in health.
What is a health determinant?
This assessment is used to measure social determinants of health. This tool is typically used by community health providers and safety-net health organizations
What is the PREPARE tool?
Adjusting healthcare needs to an individual to prevent poor care discrimination in the infrastructure
What is customizing healthcare services?
With a lack of this, diabetes and other health outcomes can arise in vulnerable communities.
What is nutrition?
A model that proposes that determinants all factor into the health of a population.
What is the field model of health and well-being?
This tool allows health organizations to identify and document social determinants of health of patients. This tool captures information related to a patient’s socioeconomic situation, including education and literacy, employment, housing, lack of adequate food or water or occupational exposure
What are ICD-10 Z Codes?
Includes residential segregation that can cause differences in social and economic opportunities which prevents equal access to care
What is Healthcare discrimination?
During COVID-19, this population of people feared taking time off for COVID due to the uncertainty of their position.
Who are people experiencing job insecurity?
The idea that people who have lower socioeconomic status have worse health.
What is the social gradient of health?
Life expectancy, condition specific changes in life expectancy, and self-reported level of health, functional status, and experiential status comprise this.
What are the three key metics for population health outcomes?
People who have a lower socioeconomic position face greater health disparities than those who have greater advantages
What is the social gradient in health?
It is 5.4 to 17.8 times more likely for a black person than white to have these diseases due to a lack of testing availability.
What are STDs?
Death, loss of function, and lack of well-being.
What are the negative health outcomes?
The two key pieces of information outcome metrics should reflect
What are the overall health of a population and the distribution of health among population groups (geographic, demographic, economic, etc.)?
Hospitals can engage with individuals in their community to learn the needs and difficulties individuals face
What is the first step in addressing SDOF in health systems?
The city of St. Louis saw a rise in COVID cases in this population due to a lack of resources provided for them.
What is the homeless popualtion?
The percentage of the trillion dollars spent as a nation on health that is allocated to population-wide approaches to health improvement.
What is 5%?
The factors that account for 80% of an individual's health outcomes
What are physical environment, health behaviors, and social determinants?
Referring individual patients to community partners for their SDOH needs requires protection of SDOH information
What is confidentiality?
"Hispanics comprise 10.2% of the US workforce, but account for 17.1% of these injuries and illnesses" -https://oem.bmj.com/content/65/11/717.full
What are occupational hazards?