SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Define terms: politics, policy, social policy, public policy, political economy - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Politics: Struggle of the distribution of resources and opportunities in society.
Policy: Overall plan embracing general goals and acceptable procedures.
Social Policy: How the government and society as a whole address the wellbeing of that society's
members.
Public Policy: Decisions/actions taken by the government in some official or legal form to do with the
particular problem or concern.
Political economy:
Explain Rose's "Population Principle" and why this underscores the need for policy approaches to
population health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The population principle is a landmark concept that
mathematically demonstrated in cardiovascular disease
Give examples of U.S. public/social policies and social protection programs that impact health -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Public Policies- would be civil rights laws, family medical leave act,
Americans with Disability Act. Social Policy- would be the Affordable Care Act. Social protection
programs would medicare/medicaid, social security income, SNAP benefits.
Explain what must be balanced for socially-just policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
What does research show to be the most health-supporting political economies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅
Identify our best models of "the good society" today and the characteristics/policies these countries
share. Assess the U.S. in this context. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅less social spending, higher rates of
poverty, lesser social mobability, larger income inequality gap
Describe the relationship between social spending and health. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅even
though in the us we pay more for health more than any other country when it comes to education,
subsidizsed housing and more we rank very low.
, Identify the policy entry points in the Diderichsen model for increasing health equity? Apply examples.
(Example: Civil Rights legislation seeks to decrease social stratification.) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Have a general grasp of place differences in life expectancy at the country, state, and local level -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Based on our models for understanding health disparities, explain what drives these differences by place
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
escribe the main findings and policy implications of Chetty's work on life expectancy among the poor in
U.S. cities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The main findings were income and life expectancy, health
behaviors, local policies, and the geographic.
Describe differences in health overall between rural and urban environments; explain some of the
underlying reasons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅health in rural areas is low, and they have higher risks
of death and they have a 50% chance of dying from an unintentional injury. Reasons can include more
death from lower respiratory diseases, deaths from covid, and opioid deaths. Urban areas health is high,
and they are the pockets of contributed poverty and racism.
Identify the four types of "environments" that are used to describe neighborhoods, with examples -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Physical environment- how the environment is built and its resources like
jobs and education. Social environment- the interactions between people in the community.
Service environment-
Economic and work environment-
Provide examples of disparities in neighborhood environments (exposures) as they relate to health -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Poverty, proximaty to connivence stores leads to obesity, closer to busier
roadways can lead more to asthma, closer to polluting factories can lead to more exposure toxins.
What did the Moving to Opportunity study determine about health and economic benefits of moving to
lower poverty neighborhoods? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅MTO was the first random-assignment
social science experiment designed to identify the causal effects of moving from high-poverty to lower-
ANSWERS
Define terms: politics, policy, social policy, public policy, political economy - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Politics: Struggle of the distribution of resources and opportunities in society.
Policy: Overall plan embracing general goals and acceptable procedures.
Social Policy: How the government and society as a whole address the wellbeing of that society's
members.
Public Policy: Decisions/actions taken by the government in some official or legal form to do with the
particular problem or concern.
Political economy:
Explain Rose's "Population Principle" and why this underscores the need for policy approaches to
population health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The population principle is a landmark concept that
mathematically demonstrated in cardiovascular disease
Give examples of U.S. public/social policies and social protection programs that impact health -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Public Policies- would be civil rights laws, family medical leave act,
Americans with Disability Act. Social Policy- would be the Affordable Care Act. Social protection
programs would medicare/medicaid, social security income, SNAP benefits.
Explain what must be balanced for socially-just policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
What does research show to be the most health-supporting political economies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅
Identify our best models of "the good society" today and the characteristics/policies these countries
share. Assess the U.S. in this context. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅less social spending, higher rates of
poverty, lesser social mobability, larger income inequality gap
Describe the relationship between social spending and health. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅even
though in the us we pay more for health more than any other country when it comes to education,
subsidizsed housing and more we rank very low.
, Identify the policy entry points in the Diderichsen model for increasing health equity? Apply examples.
(Example: Civil Rights legislation seeks to decrease social stratification.) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Have a general grasp of place differences in life expectancy at the country, state, and local level -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Based on our models for understanding health disparities, explain what drives these differences by place
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
escribe the main findings and policy implications of Chetty's work on life expectancy among the poor in
U.S. cities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The main findings were income and life expectancy, health
behaviors, local policies, and the geographic.
Describe differences in health overall between rural and urban environments; explain some of the
underlying reasons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅health in rural areas is low, and they have higher risks
of death and they have a 50% chance of dying from an unintentional injury. Reasons can include more
death from lower respiratory diseases, deaths from covid, and opioid deaths. Urban areas health is high,
and they are the pockets of contributed poverty and racism.
Identify the four types of "environments" that are used to describe neighborhoods, with examples -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Physical environment- how the environment is built and its resources like
jobs and education. Social environment- the interactions between people in the community.
Service environment-
Economic and work environment-
Provide examples of disparities in neighborhood environments (exposures) as they relate to health -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Poverty, proximaty to connivence stores leads to obesity, closer to busier
roadways can lead more to asthma, closer to polluting factories can lead to more exposure toxins.
What did the Moving to Opportunity study determine about health and economic benefits of moving to
lower poverty neighborhoods? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅MTO was the first random-assignment
social science experiment designed to identify the causal effects of moving from high-poverty to lower-
