Making the Invisible Visible: Are Health Social Workers Addressing the Social Determinants of Health?

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley L. Craig ◽  
Raluca Bejan ◽  
Barbara Muskat
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Invisible

scholarly journals Social Workers: Continuing to Address the Social Determinants of Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. e15-e15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa de Saxe Zerden ◽  
Anne Jones ◽  
Paul Lanier ◽  
Mark W. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Social

Social Determinants of Health: How Environmental Factors Affect Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Jeannette Y. Wick
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Social

Increasingly, public policy makers, professional organizations, and academics are discussing social determinants of health—the conditions in which people live, work, and age. The impetus for the discussion is a growing awareness that medication and any type of health care is a poor substitute for improving a patient's living conditions. Health care is a necessary but insufficient intervention when people develop chronic disease. Addressing the social determinants of health that include poverty, food insecurity, health literacy, neighborhoods, and the environment is essential if we are to improve an individual's overall health. This is the focus of population health, and to address social determinants of health adequately, the medical team needs to expand to give all team members overlapping duties. It also needs to include social workers and legal representatives. Pharmacists may wonder how the theories associated with social determinants of health can be incorporated into their practices. This article discusses a number of different approaches.

Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saty Satya-Murti ◽  
Jennifer Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social

The Los Angeles Plaza Community Center (PCC), an early twentieth-century Los Angeles community center and clinic, published El Mexicano, a quarterly newsletter, from 1913 to 1925. The newsletter’s reports reveal how the PCC combined walk-in medical visits with broader efforts to address the overall wellness of its attendees. Available records, some with occasional clinical details, reveal the general spectrum of illnesses treated over a twelve-year span. Placed in today’s context, the medical care given at this center was simple and minimal. The social support it provided, however, was multifaceted. The center’s caring extended beyond providing medical attention to helping with education, nutrition, employment, transportation, and moral support. Thus, the social determinants of health (SDH), a prominent concern of present-day public health, was a concept already realized and practiced by these early twentieth-century Los Angeles Plaza community leaders. Such practices, although not yet nominally identified as SDH, had their beginnings in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social activism movement aiming to mitigate the social ills and inequities of emerging industrial nations. The PCC was one of the pioneers in this effort. Its concerns and successes in this area were sophisticated enough to be comparable to our current intentions and aspirations.

Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health: Ethical and Social Justice Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-276
Author(s):  
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
The Social

The term health disparities (also called health inequalities) refers to the differences in health outcomes and related events across individuals and social groups. Social determinants of health, meanwhile, refers to certain types of causes of ill health in individuals, including lack of early infant care and stimulation, lack of safe and secure employment, poor housing conditions, discrimination, lack of self-respect, poor personal relationships, low community cohesion, and income inequality. These social determinants stand in contrast to others, such as individual biology, behaviors, and proximate exposures to harmful agents. This chapter presents some of the revolutionary findings of social epidemiology and the science of social determinants of health, and shows how health disparities and social determinants raise profound questions in public health ethics and social/global justice philosophy.

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