HS1002- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ALL ACTUAL ANSWERS.
What is SDH - Answer -Social determinants of health
- social factors that are more significant
- factors that impact health, health capital
SDH vs biomedical approach - Answer - non medical factors that influence health (often
uncontrollable)
- geography, norms, policies, values
- conditions that ppl work and live in affect their health in a good or bad way
- health equalities connect with income inequalities
- biomed approach: state of health is defined purely in the absence of illness.
How does health inequalities connect to income inequalities? - Answer - people or living
longer, making cause of death be chronic diseases
- income is most important factor in exceeding life expectancy
- impacts access to water, food, housing, etc
What did Virchow believe about typhus? - Answer - thought that ethnic poles were getting
Typhus b/c of their weak physiology
BUT living conditions (politics) have to do with access to decent wages and social abandonment
of sectors of population
3 low income disease mechanisms - Answer - material and social deprivation
- adopting of health threatening behaviours
- chronic stress
ethical and pragmatic reasons to care about social determinants of health as someone
preparing a career in health - Answer PRAGMATIC - practical/realistic ; Help explains patterns
in the distribution of health and disease rates and supports sustainable perspectives
ETHICAL - everyone wants to be healthy as possible ; social justice
Define Food insecurity - Answer - measure of inability to access food
,how many ppl and children out of people in ontario report living with food insecurity everyday?
- Answer - 2.1 million ppl, 14.6% ppl report food ins.
1 in 10 in ontario, 1 in 6 children in ont
what is the chance of developing diabetes from food insecurity? - Answer 80%
what is the chance of developing food allergies from food insecurity? - Answer 70%
what is the chance of developing high or low blood pressure from food insecurity? - Answer
50%
pros and cons of food banks? - Answer pros: become lifeline, lowers food ins.
cons: bandaid solution, stigma that surronds this, removes freedom of choice and autonomy
Capability approach - Answer - Humans need opportunities to do what they value
- framewrok. that re-articulate what the problem of what FI is
-survival is not good enough
- function as equals in society
direct ways by poor working conditions can negatively impact individual and family well-being -
Answer - social status
- income
- benefits
- respect
- safety
- stress
indirect ways by poor working conditions can negatively impact individual and family well-being
- Answer - adequate food
- shelter
- participation in community activities
- impact on work and fam relationships
-connection/disconnection
objective impacts of job insecurity - Answer - can be observed and measurable, systemic
- reduces one's income and ability to secure resources
, - limit to one's own/children ability to participate "fully" in society
subjective impacts of job insecurity - Answer - different individual's experience
- ie. some need more security than others to feel safe
contextual impacts of job insecurity - Answer - situations in which one is experiencing the
situation response in relations to social circumstances
- social values and inequalities render certain groups more vulnerable to poor working
conditions
- inequalities + objective work = subjective experiences
% of part time contract, casual, work (gig work) of canada - Answer 8
how many canadians work more than 45 hours/week? - Answer 2/3
______ of North americans who had vacation as part of their employment conditions had not
taken it in 2013 - Answer 70%
5 potential pathways - Answer 1. Injury
2. Stress induced physiological changes
3. increased risky behaviour
4. loss of social support
5. inadequacy of income
What is allosteric load - Answer cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events
how is racism a SDH? - Answer - structuraly determined by unequal distribution of power
and stressors - social construct
- disadvantages based on imagined hierarchies
poverty is racialized
What are acts of discrimination - Answer - Actions within systems of power that adversely
affect populations directly and indirectly
List some of the social determinants of health from the Dahlgreen and Whitehead model. -
Answer - Agriculture and food production
- Education
AND ALL ACTUAL ANSWERS.
What is SDH - Answer -Social determinants of health
- social factors that are more significant
- factors that impact health, health capital
SDH vs biomedical approach - Answer - non medical factors that influence health (often
uncontrollable)
- geography, norms, policies, values
- conditions that ppl work and live in affect their health in a good or bad way
- health equalities connect with income inequalities
- biomed approach: state of health is defined purely in the absence of illness.
How does health inequalities connect to income inequalities? - Answer - people or living
longer, making cause of death be chronic diseases
- income is most important factor in exceeding life expectancy
- impacts access to water, food, housing, etc
What did Virchow believe about typhus? - Answer - thought that ethnic poles were getting
Typhus b/c of their weak physiology
BUT living conditions (politics) have to do with access to decent wages and social abandonment
of sectors of population
3 low income disease mechanisms - Answer - material and social deprivation
- adopting of health threatening behaviours
- chronic stress
ethical and pragmatic reasons to care about social determinants of health as someone
preparing a career in health - Answer PRAGMATIC - practical/realistic ; Help explains patterns
in the distribution of health and disease rates and supports sustainable perspectives
ETHICAL - everyone wants to be healthy as possible ; social justice
Define Food insecurity - Answer - measure of inability to access food
,how many ppl and children out of people in ontario report living with food insecurity everyday?
- Answer - 2.1 million ppl, 14.6% ppl report food ins.
1 in 10 in ontario, 1 in 6 children in ont
what is the chance of developing diabetes from food insecurity? - Answer 80%
what is the chance of developing food allergies from food insecurity? - Answer 70%
what is the chance of developing high or low blood pressure from food insecurity? - Answer
50%
pros and cons of food banks? - Answer pros: become lifeline, lowers food ins.
cons: bandaid solution, stigma that surronds this, removes freedom of choice and autonomy
Capability approach - Answer - Humans need opportunities to do what they value
- framewrok. that re-articulate what the problem of what FI is
-survival is not good enough
- function as equals in society
direct ways by poor working conditions can negatively impact individual and family well-being -
Answer - social status
- income
- benefits
- respect
- safety
- stress
indirect ways by poor working conditions can negatively impact individual and family well-being
- Answer - adequate food
- shelter
- participation in community activities
- impact on work and fam relationships
-connection/disconnection
objective impacts of job insecurity - Answer - can be observed and measurable, systemic
- reduces one's income and ability to secure resources
, - limit to one's own/children ability to participate "fully" in society
subjective impacts of job insecurity - Answer - different individual's experience
- ie. some need more security than others to feel safe
contextual impacts of job insecurity - Answer - situations in which one is experiencing the
situation response in relations to social circumstances
- social values and inequalities render certain groups more vulnerable to poor working
conditions
- inequalities + objective work = subjective experiences
% of part time contract, casual, work (gig work) of canada - Answer 8
how many canadians work more than 45 hours/week? - Answer 2/3
______ of North americans who had vacation as part of their employment conditions had not
taken it in 2013 - Answer 70%
5 potential pathways - Answer 1. Injury
2. Stress induced physiological changes
3. increased risky behaviour
4. loss of social support
5. inadequacy of income
What is allosteric load - Answer cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events
how is racism a SDH? - Answer - structuraly determined by unequal distribution of power
and stressors - social construct
- disadvantages based on imagined hierarchies
poverty is racialized
What are acts of discrimination - Answer - Actions within systems of power that adversely
affect populations directly and indirectly
List some of the social determinants of health from the Dahlgreen and Whitehead model. -
Answer - Agriculture and food production
- Education
