Social and Economic Influences on Health
Determinants of health are personal, social, economic and environmental factors that affect the health of individuals and populations. They include:
1.Income and social status
2.Employment and working conditions
3.Education and literacy
4.Childhood experiences
5.Physical environments
6.Social supports and coping skills
7.Healthy behaviouirs
8.Access to health services
9. Biology and genetic endowment
10.Gender
11.Culture
Canada
- Health inequalities from CIHI
- Health Inequalities Interactive Tool from CIHI
- Health Inequalities Data Tool from Public Health Canada
- Health Indicators is a Statistics Canada tool to give quick access to health-related data for selected health regions or provinces.
- Canadian Women's Health Network gives access to documents, reviews, projects and organizations on women's lives and health
World Health Organization
- Health Impact Assessment (HIA) the determinants of health
- Social determinants of health from the Public health Agency of Canada
- National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health An organization focusing on social and economic factors that influence the health of Canadians
- Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health WHO report
- From WHO Europe Social Determinants of Health
- Health on the Net a not for profit organization with a relationship to WHO to promote reliable health information online
United States
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC Social Determinants of Health
- Healthy People
- MedlinePlus - National Institutes of Health's Web portal for everyone. It includes information about disease, conditions and wellness issues.
Searching for Books
- Subject terms when searching
- Health status indicators
- Public health - social aspects
- Pulic health - economic aspects
- Social medicine
- Medical policy - social aspects
- Health status disparities
Searching for Articles
- Useful search terms
- inequity/equity
- discrimination
- disparity
- inequality
- prejudice
- injustice
- racism
- minority rights
- women's rights
- justice
- income gap
- fairness
Of Interest
- Guardian article on the Spanish flu