Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sustainable Development, Millennium Development Goals, Life Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

Adolescent health strongly affected by social factors at levels of: personal, family, community, national. Nations present teens with structures of opportunity as the grow up. Health/health behaviors correspond strongly from adolescence adult life: therefore, teen health is crucial for the health of the entire population and economic development of the nation. Safe and supportive families, schools, and peers are crucial to development and reaching full potential. Improving teen health = improving their daily life with family, peers, and school addressing risk and protective factors in the social environment: access to education, access to employment, reduce risk of transport-related. Most effective interventions = structural changes to improve (for teens) Strongest determinant of adolescent health (worldwide: structural factors. Work of sdh focus on how: causes of individual problems relate to causes of population incidence, difference between individuals relate to difference between population, social gradients and cultural factors affect health outcomes. Adolescence = crucial period of psychological and biological change (2nd to childhood)