Teaching Pack: Social Determinants of Health
2018
This teaching pack was developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University to introduce high school and undergraduate college students to the “social determinants of health,” which are all of the social factors external to an individual that may not seem directly relevant to health, but that ultimately shape the conditions in which people live, work, and grow in ways that can both promote well-being and confer disease risk. The teaching pack describes several frameworks for analyzing the social determinants of health and explores how to apply them to thoughtful engagement with global health concepts, challenges, and responses. The materials include a short instructor’s note, a teaching guide introducing educators to the concepts and frameworks discussed in the lessons and how to use them, four lessons with activities, an annotated bibliography, and a glossary of terms. The four lessons, which can be used individually or together in a module, compare and apply the frameworks, illustrate social determinants through interactive data and pictures, consider a case where texting was associated with a tragic health outcome, and discuss a news story summarizing a research study on the role of social status on health risk and its implications across societies today.
Teaching Pack: Social Determinants of Health
Source:
Teaching Pack: Social Determinants of Health. Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University 2018. http://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/collection/teaching-pack-social-determinants-health.