HLTH 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Jennifer Wigglesworth

Document Summary

When we address the social determinants of health, we treat the source or underlying causes of poor health, not just the symptoms. Social determinants of health include consideration of social, political, and economic forces and systems that impact the conditions in which people live and work. The social determinants of health set up the conditions of everyday life in which different groups of people have different opportunities to enjoy health. This affects the average health and longevity of these groups of people. Lists of the social determinants of health invariably include income, education, housing, employment, gender, racism, and childhood development, food, neighbourhoods, transportation, access to health care and social support. Some people who study social determinants of health focus on those who are most marginalized or excluded from the mainstream, and thus have the worst health. The most marginalized suffer most than others from unjust social arrangements.