Barriers to Teaching Social Determinants of Health: Nursing Study-Abroad Programs in a Digital Age

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter de Ruiter
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Barriers To Teaching

The social determinants of health are the conditions in which humans are born, grow up, live, work, and age (World Health Organization [WHO], 2012). In nursing programs, this content is typically taught in community health courses. Another strategy for teaching students how to understand the social determinants of health is study-abroad courses. Budding nurses can learn how to assess conditions that influence the health of a community. Conducting this assessment in a culture that differs from the student’s own can help highlight what factors impact one’s own health. For the past eight years, the author has been teaching the social and cultural determinants of health to nursing students by taking them on 3-week cultural immersion/community health study-abroad programs. Destinations have included Ghana, Austria, the Netherlands, and Thailand. This article presents observations on how the teaching of social determinants of health has changed during the period 2008–2016.

Partnering on the Social Determinants of Health With the Community Health Improvement Matrix

2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara P. Laymon ◽  
Reena Chudgar ◽  
Tiffany Huang ◽  
Mukti Kulkarni ◽  
Peter L. Holtgrave ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Health Improvement

scholarly journals A Community Health Worker Intervention to Address the Social Determinants of Health Through Policy Change

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maia Ingram ◽  
Ken A. Schachter ◽  
Samantha J. Sabo ◽  
Kerstin M. Reinschmidt ◽  
Sofia Gomez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Community Health Worker ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Social determinants of health and community health agent work

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiane Broch ◽  
Deise Lisboa Riquinho ◽  
Letícia Becker Vieira ◽  
Adriana Roese Ramos ◽  
Vanessa Aparecida Gasparin
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
District Management ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
The City ◽  
Community Health Agent

Abstract Objective: To understand the social determinants of health from the perspective of the work of community health agents. Method: A qualitative study conducted in a Health District Management in the city of Porto Alegre/Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, through focus groups and semi-structured interviews with community health agents. The analysis took place through thematic categorization, and the social determinants of health were adopted as the analytical category. Results: Twenty-five (25) community health agent workers participated. Overlapping individual and collective themes emerged, from violence and drug trafficking to lack of sanitation, improperly disposed garbage, illiteracy and the health problems themselves. Conclusion: The study revealed a complex relationship between the work of community health agents and the social determinants of health, reinforcing the need for a cohesive health team with intersectoral initiatives to address the different demands of the territories which are worked and lived in.

scholarly journals Health Equity in Community Assessments: A Participatory Approach in Rural Virginia

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401983892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gilson deValpine ◽  
Laura Hunt Trull
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Health Improvement

A coalition of community members and human service professionals in the rural central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia has performed a community assessment every 5 years. Overreliance on quantitative surveys and hospital-based Community Health Needs Assessments resulted in earlier assessments failing to identify the needs of vulnerable populations. As the coalition approached the time for a new assessment, their priority was to develop a deeper understanding of community health needs and solutions. An extended co-learning process between coalition, community, and local academic representatives resulted in a plan to develop assessment methods and community health improvement resources suited to this goal. The coalition identified methods rooted in the social determinants of health and utilized a community-based participatory research approach to provide underserved residents the opportunity to contribute to health research and decision making and produce an assessment more reflective of their community. Resources including local interpretation and implications of the World Health Organization’s 10 Social Determinants of Health, a Healthy People 2020 community health services profile, and user-friendly access to community-based secondary data sets were developed for intervention planning. All information, resources, and implications were shared at meetings, in public announcements, and at a public forum. All data remain publicly available on the coalition’s website. Previously held beliefs regarding access to care and quality of life were substantiated through this process, enabling the coalition to better align itself with local political entities and to move forward immediately with community health improvement planning.

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