Section outline

  • Lecture: Multi-level etiologies of health in diverse population, Part 1: Social determinants of health and health behaviors

    Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, including education, wealth, occupation, neighborhood of residence, and the experience of racism. These factors are increasingly recognized as critical upstream influences that drive individual level health, as well as differences in health across groups. This lecture will provide an overview of what is known about the role of social determinants and about their influence on health behaviors and health itself.

    Faculty:  Salma Shariff-Marco and Scarlett Gomez

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 2 social determinants of health Jan12 2021 part 1 and part 2 Jan 4 2020 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch - Live Lecture Media Resource
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    • Lecture - Please review before Jan. 12 Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:

    • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Overcoming Obstacles to Health- Chapter 3 File
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    • RWJ Chapter 3: Provides an overview of how social factors influence health, and specifically pathways between social factors and health behaviors, contextualizing these behaviors within the socioecological model

    • Freeman CRT File
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    • Freeman CRT: Uses qualitative methods to explore the relationship between the lived experience of racism and discrimination and engagement with medical care

    • DM Christine File
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    • DM Christine: An applied paper investigating the impact of social factors on a health outcome (in this case, Type 2 DM)

    • Optional Readings:

    • Pampel Annu Review File
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    • DM Steve File
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    • Thakur SDOH COVID ATS Journals 2020 File
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    • Racism and Health papers File

    • Assignment:

      Please submit to forum before class on January 12th:

      1. Write a brief paragraph discussing what social determinants are most relevant to your area of research and why. The association could be reported in published research or it could be your hypothesized relationship. Consider whether how these factors might function over the lifecourse and/or intergenerationally.

      2. Describe 2-3 health behaviors that are relevant to your area of interest. Write a paragraph exploring how these may be influenced by the social determinants you described in #1, and another paragraph considering how they are influenced by the levels of racism described in the Gardner’s Tale assigned in Week 1.

      3. Describe a qualitative or quantitative study design that could deepen your understanding of the relationship between social determinants of health, racism, health behaviors, and your health outcome of interest..