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Family Assessment Part 2
Grand Canyon University
NRS-429VN
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Family Assessment Part 2
SDOH Affect the Family Health Status, their Impacts, and why they are Prevalent
Health outcomes are of populations depend on many internal and external factors. The
factors are popularly known as the social determinants of health (SDOH) and refer to the
conditions that people are born, raised, live, and work (Donkin, Goldblatt, Allen, Nathanson, &
Marmot, 2017). They include one’s education level, socioeconomic status, environment,
healthcare, and food. An in-depth analysis of the family in the given case study reveals that they
are affected by several SDOH that have a significant influence on their health outcome.
Employment status is one of the SDOH that is affecting the family in the given case
study. Both parents are in full-time formal employment since the wife works as a secretary in a
law firm while the husband is an accountant in a construction firm. The secure employment
status has positive impacts on the health outcome of the family (Donkin, Goldblatt, Allen,
Nathanson, & Marmot, 2017). For example, the parents can provide a secure and healthy living
environment for the family to live in. Education level is another SDOH affecting this family. The
wife and the husband are educated individuals as insinuated by their formal employment in
white-collar jobs. Moreover, their children are also in school; high school and junior-high-school
for the first- and last-born children respectively. Their education status has a positive impact on
their health impact since it enables them to make healthy lifestyle choices. For example, the
consumption of healthy diets. The physical environment is another SDOH that is affecting the
health outcome of members of this family. Now, the family is living in a clean and safe
environment - Birmingham, Alabama - which is free from land, water, and air pollution. This has
a positive impact on their health outcome since they are less susceptible to communicable
diseases.
Family Assessment Part 2
Grand Canyon University
NRS-429VN
, 2
Family Assessment Part 2
SDOH Affect the Family Health Status, their Impacts, and why they are Prevalent
Health outcomes are of populations depend on many internal and external factors. The
factors are popularly known as the social determinants of health (SDOH) and refer to the
conditions that people are born, raised, live, and work (Donkin, Goldblatt, Allen, Nathanson, &
Marmot, 2017). They include one’s education level, socioeconomic status, environment,
healthcare, and food. An in-depth analysis of the family in the given case study reveals that they
are affected by several SDOH that have a significant influence on their health outcome.
Employment status is one of the SDOH that is affecting the family in the given case
study. Both parents are in full-time formal employment since the wife works as a secretary in a
law firm while the husband is an accountant in a construction firm. The secure employment
status has positive impacts on the health outcome of the family (Donkin, Goldblatt, Allen,
Nathanson, & Marmot, 2017). For example, the parents can provide a secure and healthy living
environment for the family to live in. Education level is another SDOH affecting this family. The
wife and the husband are educated individuals as insinuated by their formal employment in
white-collar jobs. Moreover, their children are also in school; high school and junior-high-school
for the first- and last-born children respectively. Their education status has a positive impact on
their health impact since it enables them to make healthy lifestyle choices. For example, the
consumption of healthy diets. The physical environment is another SDOH that is affecting the
health outcome of members of this family. Now, the family is living in a clean and safe
environment - Birmingham, Alabama - which is free from land, water, and air pollution. This has
a positive impact on their health outcome since they are less susceptible to communicable
diseases.
