HLTA02H3 Chapter : Week 7 readings
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Readings for week 7: social determinants of health: an overview of concepts and. Issues by dennis raphael (chapter 5 of staying alive) Rudolph virchow and the social determinants of health: german physician (1821 1902), medical discoveries so extensive that he is known as the father of. What are social determinants of health: mechanisms by which members of different socio-economic groups come to experience varying degrees of health and illness, the 11 key determinants that are especially relevant to understanding and improving the health of. Canadians are: aboriginal status, early life, education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social exclusion and unemployment and employment security. comparing their status to others, individuals experience feelings of shame that have psychobiological effects on health: at the communal level, widening and strengthening of hierarchy weakens social cohesion, a determinant of health.
