SOC364H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Forces, Health Promotion, Food Security
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North america"s and other jurisdictions" common public health preoccupations with individualized approaches to risk prevention and health promotion ( Most public health practice in these jurisdictions remains limited to health education approaches to behavior change. A major failing of social determinants of health theory and research, then, is a neglect of the political, economic, and social forces that drive the quality of these health determinants. Behavioral factors were weak predictors of health status as compared with sociodemographic measures. Poverty rate is an especially important indicator of how various social determinants of health combine to influence health. The three dominant frameworks that have emerged to explain the role that income inequality may play in health: materialist, neomaterialist, and psychosocial comparison approaches. Materialist approach: conditions of living as determinants of health. Individuals experience varying degrees of positive and negative exposures over their lives that accumulate to produce adult health outcomes.
