GLPH 171 - MODULE 3 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
what determinant areas does the social aspect of health connect to?
Ans✓✓✓- healthy child development
- health behaviours and coping skills
- employment
- working conditions
- access to health services
proximal social factors that influence health Ans✓✓✓- individual
cultural factors
- aspect of family env and lifestyle factors
- social and community networks
distal social factors that influence health Ans✓✓✓- social inequality
across populations
- broader social and cultural aspects at population level
what is SDOH (social determinants of health)? Ans✓✓✓conditions in
which people are born, grow, work, live and age _ wider set of forces
and systems that shape daily life conditions
, specific features and pathways by which social and societal conditions
affect health and how they can be altered by policy changes/other
interventions
examples of SDOH Ans✓✓✓- social relationships and supports
- social norms
- social policies
- societal features
- political and economic systems
lifestyle factors Ans✓✓✓behaviours, actions and lifestyle choices that
affect individual health
- SDOH can influence choices people make
SDOH importance Ans✓✓✓accounts for 30-55% of health outcomes
culture definition Ans✓✓✓shared set of beliefs, ideas, values and
behaviours
- forms a basis of a group's identity (members share common ideology
and cosmology)
how is culture transmitted? Ans✓✓✓across generations (vertical) or
through cohorts (horizontal)
- malleable, dynamic and responsive to external stimuli
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
what determinant areas does the social aspect of health connect to?
Ans✓✓✓- healthy child development
- health behaviours and coping skills
- employment
- working conditions
- access to health services
proximal social factors that influence health Ans✓✓✓- individual
cultural factors
- aspect of family env and lifestyle factors
- social and community networks
distal social factors that influence health Ans✓✓✓- social inequality
across populations
- broader social and cultural aspects at population level
what is SDOH (social determinants of health)? Ans✓✓✓conditions in
which people are born, grow, work, live and age _ wider set of forces
and systems that shape daily life conditions
, specific features and pathways by which social and societal conditions
affect health and how they can be altered by policy changes/other
interventions
examples of SDOH Ans✓✓✓- social relationships and supports
- social norms
- social policies
- societal features
- political and economic systems
lifestyle factors Ans✓✓✓behaviours, actions and lifestyle choices that
affect individual health
- SDOH can influence choices people make
SDOH importance Ans✓✓✓accounts for 30-55% of health outcomes
culture definition Ans✓✓✓shared set of beliefs, ideas, values and
behaviours
- forms a basis of a group's identity (members share common ideology
and cosmology)
how is culture transmitted? Ans✓✓✓across generations (vertical) or
through cohorts (horizontal)
- malleable, dynamic and responsive to external stimuli
