Assignment (Narrative and Concept Map):
For your summative evaluation write a 500-word essay with two references explaining 2-5 SDOH factors that contribute to the health disparity. You may select one health disparity from the list above or identify another.
• Describe how SDOH have contributed to the selected health disparity.
• Include one policy that has influenced the social conditions that generated the health disparity.
• Identify the role of one public health core function and one of the ten essential public health services in addressing the selected health disparity. (https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/publichealthservices/essentialhealthservices.html)
• Finally, make one community/policyrecommendation/intervention that could help close the health disparity gap.
Concept Map: Prepare a stand-alone, concept map that illustrates and clearly links the selected health disparity, at least two (2) SDOH factors, one (1) core function or essential public health service and one (1) policy and show what your recommendations target to help close the health disparity gap. The concept map can be hand-drawn, or you can use any of the online concept-mapping tool, or illustrated on a PowerPoint slide. Be as creative as you would like.
Reference Resources:
Background:
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks (Healthy People 2020). As we have learned during this course, SDOH contribute to wide health disparities and inequities.
Examples of health disparities:
• Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are 2-3 times more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than white womenhttps://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html
• The rate of preterm birth among Black women (14.4%) is about 50 percent higher than the rate of preterm birth among white women https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pretermbirth.htm
• Black women have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate as whites. https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=23
• Agriculture workers have more than 35 times the risk of heat-related death than workers in all other industries
Gubernot, D. M., Anderson, G. B., & Hunting, K. L. (2015). Characterizing occupational heat-related mortality in the United States, 2000-2010: an analysis using the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries database. American journal of industrial medicine, 58(2), 203–211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22381
• Death and hospitalization rates due to COVID-19 disproportionately affect Blacks and Hispanics
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html
• Tribal Communities have 368% greater risk of death related to chronic liver disease compared with to all U.S. races.
https://www.ihs.gov/dps/publications/trends2014/
• LGBTQIA+ youth are 2 to 3 times more likely than non-LGBTQIA+ youth to attempt suicide
https://youth.gov/youth-topics/lgbtq-youth/health-depression-and-suicide
• Justice-involved population is more likely to have high blood pressure than general population
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mpsfpji1112.pdf
• Risk of childhood lead poisoning is greater in lower-income families
https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showCommunityDesignAddLinkChildhoodLeadPoisoning.action
• Asthma rates are higher among minority children living in U.S. cities https://www.aafa.org/asthma-disparities-burden-on-minorities.aspx
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