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The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are factors within the environments where people live that affect their health, such as their physical environment, neighborhood, education, social support, employment, socioeconomic status, and access to health care. These environmental conditions affect people as they are born, live, learn, play, work, worship, and age, modifying health risks, health functioning, and the quality of life. The significant impact of the Social Determinants of Health to individuals and societal health becomes a major consideration for health ministries. To learn more, follow this link: https://www.cdc.gov/about/sdoh/index.html. Some of the organizations and focal areas are listed:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm) |
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Healthy People (https://health.gov/healthypeople) A promotional toolkit for Healthy People 2030 is available at: https://health.gov/our-work/national-health-initiatives/healthy-people/healthy-people-2030/promoting-healthy-people-2030
Healthy People groups the social determinants of health into 5 domains, including Economic Stability, Education Access and Quality, Health Care Access and Quality, Neighborhood and Built Environment, and Social and Community Context. Consider using these goals and objectives in your health ministry goals and data monitoring to reflect concrete measures of program outcomes: https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health |
Kaiser Family Foundation now called KFF (https://www.kff.org/) KFF published an issue brief in May of 2018, entitled Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity, that is available for review at: https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-the-role-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-and-health-equity/ Artiga, S., & Hinton, E. (2018, May). Beyond health care: The role of social determinants in promoting health and health equity. KFF Issue Brief. Retrieved December 28, 2021, from https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-the-role-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-and-health-equity/ |