Considering parental hearing status as a social determinant of deaf population health: Insights from experiences of the "dinner table syndrome"

Wyatte C. Hall; Scott R. Smith; Erika J. Sutter; Lori A. DeWindt; Timothy D. V. Dye

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202169

Considering parental hearing status as a social determinant of deaf population health: Insights from experiences of the "dinner table syndrome"

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0202169 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. e0202169 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Wyatte C. Hall ◽

Scott R. Smith ◽

Erika J. Sutter ◽

Lori A. DeWindt ◽

Timothy D. V. Dye

Keyword(s):

Population Health ◽

Social Determinant ◽

Hearing Status ◽

Dinner Table

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Social Determinants in the United States

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190846756.013.60 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Wendy E. Parmet

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Health Disparities ◽

Population Health ◽

Social Determinants ◽

The United States ◽

Social Determinant ◽

Public Health Agencies ◽

The Social ◽

The Us ◽

Health Laws

This chapter studies the social determinants of health in the United States, focusing on one important but often overlooked social determinant: law. It explains how law influences social determinants and why law should itself be viewed as an important social determinant, one that can both magnify or diminish health disparities. Law can affect population health in numerous ways. Most obviously, laws create, empower, and restrain state, local, and federal public health agencies; regulate the delivery of healthcare; and seek to promote population health by regulating unsafe practices and activities, such as smoking. Health laws, however, are not the only laws that affect health. Laws that affect employment, income inequality, housing, the built environment, and education may also impact health. The chapter then considers some defining features of US law that may play a role in creating or perpetuating health disparities both within the US and between the US and other nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It also reviews some recent initiatives in the US, many but not all undertaken via law, to address social determinants, and it looks at the barriers that remain to ameliorating social determinants through law, as well as some reasons for optimism.

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Individual and Household Food Insecurity in Canada: Position of Dietitians of Canada: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (1)

Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research ◽

10.3148/66.1.2005.43 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 43-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Population Health ◽

Safety Net ◽

Social Determinant ◽

Household Food Insecurity ◽

Executive Summary ◽

Root Cause ◽

Household Food ◽

Apply Research

The position of Dietitians of Canada (DC) is that all Canadians must have food security. Recognizing food security as a social determinant of health, DC recommends a population health approach to food security: that is, an approach that seeks to reduce health inequities through the pursuit of social justice. A population health approach addresses the root cause of individual and household food insecurity – poverty – through improvements to the social safety net. DC strongly encourages dietitians to educate themselves about the issues and processes to achieve food security through social change, to use empowering strategies in community-based food programming, to conduct and apply research, and to participate in coalitions that advocate to create the conditions in which all Canadians can achieve food security.

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