Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Wealth, Cultural Identity, Protective Factor

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

Document Summary

Learning about adolescent health is important for population health and the economic development of nations. As a developmental phase, it is 2nd only to childhood in terms of psychological and physiological change. The strongest determinants of health worldwide are structural factors: national wealth, income inequality, access to education. Thus, most effective interventions are those designed to address structural factors: health is about so much more than disease and bodily states of illness/well- being. The transition in adolescent health research from primarily risk-based approaches to those that include other determinants, including resilience. To review determinants of health among youth from un studies and combine these insights with more general life-course/sdh models to generate new ideas about sdh for adolescents. Use who conceptual framework on sdh to identify the 2 main levels at which determinants operate: structural and proximal. Greater national wealth improves health outcomes among adolescents. Wealth inequity within nations also impacts health (i. e. , class, race, ability, poverty)