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One of the recommendations by the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health is expanding knowledge – particularly to health care workers. [108] Although not addressed by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, sexual orientation and gender identity are increasingly recognized as social determinants of health. [121]
Social medicine is a vast and evolving field, and its scope can cover a wide range of topics that touch on the intersection of society and health. The scope of social medicine includes: Social Determinants of Health: Investigation of how factors like income, education, employment, race, gender, housing, and social support impact health outcomes.
Social emergency medicine encompasses many environmental and behavioral factors that affect health. These include housing and food insecurity, [3] [4] the use and misuse of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, [5] community and interpersonal violence, [6] the impact of firearms on public health, [7] human trafficking, [8] and communicable disease including HIV and Hepatitis C. [9] Proponents of social ...
Another example of a utilized social service program in Northern California is the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Find Program. This program employs a method of addressing the social determinants of health, liaison work, contextualized by their predominantly impoverished patient population.
The concept of health takes into account physical, psychological, and social well-being, among other factors. [4] Public health is an interdisciplinary field. For example, epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences and management of health services are all relevant.
Most famous for linking social status with health are the Whitehall studies—a series of studies conducted on civil servants in London. The studies found that, despite the fact that all civil servants in England have the same access to health care, there was a strong correlation between social status and health.
Although health research is often organized by disease categories or organ systems, theoretical development in social epidemiology is typically organized around factors that influence health (i.e., health determinants rather than health outcomes). Many social factors are thought to be relevant for a wide range of health domains.
The Sociology of Health and Illness focuses on three areas: the conceptualization, the study of measurement and social distribution, and the justification of patterns in health and illness. By looking at these things researchers can look at different diseases through a sociological lens.