Determinants of Health 2026
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why are the social determinants of health so important? - ANSWER
✔✔they are very important in impacting the health of individuals and
populations.
what are the social determinants of health? (12) - ANSWER ✔✔1.
income and social status
2. employment and working conditions
3. education and literacy
,4. childhood experiences
5. physical environments
6. social support and coping skills
7. healthy behaviours
8. access to health services
9. biology and genetic endowment
10. gender
11. culture
12. race/racism
Are they all social
Who developed the list?
are there other lists? - ANSWER ✔✔1. no
2. the public health agency of Canada (PHAC)
3. yes, even in Canada (they present different names)
explain how the scale model works: - ANSWER ✔✔You have
biological/genetic components (age, sex, and hereditary factors) related
to the population and individuals within the population. They define the
health of the population by defining the health of individuals and are
,close to individuals (personal). Following that, you have individual
lifestyle factors which are very close to the individual as well. (The
specific things every person does in the population). Then, social and
community networks follow. they still act largely at the indvidual level but
grow bigger in terms of the number of people in encompasses. These
community networks interface with some of the DOH. Then we apply the
larger broader social elements to this. This is where the remaining social
determinants of health impact the larger population as a whole.
when was this model developed?
what does the scale encapsulate?
what are closer to the centre vs. on the outer-layer? - ANSWER ✔✔1.
1991
2. how the different DOH associate with each other and the scale at
which they impact populations or individuals.
3. Stronger individual determinants are closer to the centre and broader
population level impacts are at the outer-layer
explain how the DOH and pathways to health and illness model works? -
ANSWER ✔✔factors such as early life, genes, and culture have an
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, impact on health behaviours and all these other social/environmental
determinants of health.
what do these models show? - ANSWER ✔✔there are a number of
different ways that the DOH are attempted to be captured (visually)
occupational class is a metric for what?
what are we comparing here? - ANSWER ✔✔1. income and social
status
2. income/social status and life expectancy
regardless of if you look at the male or female group...
which group do you see this particularly with, males or females? -
ANSWER ✔✔1. as you work your way up the hierarchy of social
status and occupation, you can see that you have a life expectancy
increase
2. males. female category sees an increase, just not as prominent.
what do life transitions do to health?
examples of life transitions (7) - ANSWER ✔✔1. they influence it by
moving someone to a more or less advantaged path.
2. early childhood -> education -> starting work -> starting family ->
changing jobs -> facing skills phase out -> retirement