Social Determinants of Health Exam 2– A+
Graded Guide with Complete Answers
Define terms: politics, policy, social policy, public policy, political economy - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔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 - ✔✔
What does research show to be the most health-supporting political economies? - ✔✔
Identify our best models of "the good society" today and the characteristics/policies these countries
share. Assess the U.S. in this context. - ✔✔less social spending, higher rates of poverty, lesser social
mobability, larger income inequality gap
Describe the relationship between social spending and health. - ✔✔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.) - ✔✔
Have a general grasp of place differences in life expectancy at the country, state, and local level - ✔✔
Based on our models for understanding health disparities, explain what drives these differences by place
- ✔✔
escribe the main findings and policy implications of Chetty's work on life expectancy among the poor in
U.S. cities - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔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 -
✔✔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? - ✔✔MTO was the first random-assignment social science experiment
designed to identify the causal effects of moving from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods on
the social, economic and educational prospects, risky and criminal behavior, health, and well-being of
low-income families.
Graded Guide with Complete Answers
Define terms: politics, policy, social policy, public policy, political economy - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔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 - ✔✔
What does research show to be the most health-supporting political economies? - ✔✔
Identify our best models of "the good society" today and the characteristics/policies these countries
share. Assess the U.S. in this context. - ✔✔less social spending, higher rates of poverty, lesser social
mobability, larger income inequality gap
Describe the relationship between social spending and health. - ✔✔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.) - ✔✔
Have a general grasp of place differences in life expectancy at the country, state, and local level - ✔✔
Based on our models for understanding health disparities, explain what drives these differences by place
- ✔✔
escribe the main findings and policy implications of Chetty's work on life expectancy among the poor in
U.S. cities - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔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 -
✔✔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? - ✔✔MTO was the first random-assignment social science experiment
designed to identify the causal effects of moving from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods on
the social, economic and educational prospects, risky and criminal behavior, health, and well-being of
low-income families.
