SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH FINAL EXAM STUDY SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define social determinants of health and determinants of health and provide examples - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions that
influence individual and group differences in health status.----The range of personal, social, economic,
and environmental factors that influence health status are known as determinants of health.
Define socioeconomic status and three measures used to asses it - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅education, occupation, and income
Define health disparities, health equity, and inequity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅preventable
differences in disease burden, injury, violence, or opportunity to achieve optimal health experienced by
socially disadvantaged populations
How does Levy view the cause of disease? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Describe the Levy anthology's main point about inequalities in health and inequities in society -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Explain the connection between educational level and health behaviors, poor health, and disease risk -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅education is responsible for the learned health behaviors that affect the
prevalence in disease. Education also affects the type of job one can work, how much they make, where
they live, and what health care they can afford.
Define and differentiate between income and wealth - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅income is how much
money you make (money coming in) and wealth is how much you own in assets
describe the social gradient of health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅There is a social gradient in health
that runs from top to bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum. This is a global phenomenon, seen in low,
middle and high income countries. The social gradient in health means that health inequities affect
everyone.
, describe how health behaviors contribute to health outcomes within the confines of health
determinants - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅health behaviors are behaviors that latter affect our health.
These are things like eating and exercise habits (affecting things like diabetes and obesity) smoking and
tobacco use (affecting cancer)
Describe why the Levy anthology asserts that neglect of chronic non-communicable disease by public
health workers is a major social injustice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
describe the Levy anthology's main point about the relationship between socioeconomic status,
education, work, and mental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Discuss homelessness and housing insecurity as a social determinant of health, describe populations
that are homeless, and describe the difference between chronic homelessness and short-term or
intermittent housing insecurity/homelessness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅homelessness and housing
insecurity lead to poor health outcomes as they tend to be quite cyclical, which ends up resulting in a
stressful lifestyle that can affect job security, built environment, education, etc. which all affect health
independently.
Summarize the social democratic model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅stresses the social
rights of citizens in society, emphasizing that all are
entitled to the resources that provide good health.
Society should maximize the aggregate health of all
people.
Summarize the individual rational-choice model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅advocates individual
effort and freedom to exercise choice
Stresses that people bear some responsibility for their
individual risks of morbidity and mortality
Health status differences reflect those choices
Differences in health not really "injustices" as they result
from our choices ("Deserving" or "Undeserving" Poor)
Rights can be realized through the free market.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define social determinants of health and determinants of health and provide examples - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions that
influence individual and group differences in health status.----The range of personal, social, economic,
and environmental factors that influence health status are known as determinants of health.
Define socioeconomic status and three measures used to asses it - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅education, occupation, and income
Define health disparities, health equity, and inequity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅preventable
differences in disease burden, injury, violence, or opportunity to achieve optimal health experienced by
socially disadvantaged populations
How does Levy view the cause of disease? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Describe the Levy anthology's main point about inequalities in health and inequities in society -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Explain the connection between educational level and health behaviors, poor health, and disease risk -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅education is responsible for the learned health behaviors that affect the
prevalence in disease. Education also affects the type of job one can work, how much they make, where
they live, and what health care they can afford.
Define and differentiate between income and wealth - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅income is how much
money you make (money coming in) and wealth is how much you own in assets
describe the social gradient of health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅There is a social gradient in health
that runs from top to bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum. This is a global phenomenon, seen in low,
middle and high income countries. The social gradient in health means that health inequities affect
everyone.
, describe how health behaviors contribute to health outcomes within the confines of health
determinants - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅health behaviors are behaviors that latter affect our health.
These are things like eating and exercise habits (affecting things like diabetes and obesity) smoking and
tobacco use (affecting cancer)
Describe why the Levy anthology asserts that neglect of chronic non-communicable disease by public
health workers is a major social injustice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
describe the Levy anthology's main point about the relationship between socioeconomic status,
education, work, and mental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅
Discuss homelessness and housing insecurity as a social determinant of health, describe populations
that are homeless, and describe the difference between chronic homelessness and short-term or
intermittent housing insecurity/homelessness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅homelessness and housing
insecurity lead to poor health outcomes as they tend to be quite cyclical, which ends up resulting in a
stressful lifestyle that can affect job security, built environment, education, etc. which all affect health
independently.
Summarize the social democratic model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅stresses the social
rights of citizens in society, emphasizing that all are
entitled to the resources that provide good health.
Society should maximize the aggregate health of all
people.
Summarize the individual rational-choice model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅advocates individual
effort and freedom to exercise choice
Stresses that people bear some responsibility for their
individual risks of morbidity and mortality
Health status differences reflect those choices
Differences in health not really "injustices" as they result
from our choices ("Deserving" or "Undeserving" Poor)
Rights can be realized through the free market.
