Region and Social Determiners
Select a country or region other than the United States to serve as the focus of your entire project. (To keep the work manageable, a region would consist of two or three adjacent countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.) In your Region and Social Determiners paper:
1- Analyze the social determiners of health for the region. Be sure to include the following in your discussion:
-Levels of wealth or poverty.
-Educational attainment and availability of schools.
-Cultural beliefs and how they might impact women's rights and access to education for girls.
-Access to public health.
-Quality of housing and sewage disposal.
-Access to food and shelter.
2- Summarize the public health status for the region, including an analysis of the impact of social determiners.
3- Describe any physical, psychological, or environmental factors crossing international boundaries that impact public health practice in your region. Include things such as:
-Climate.
-Access to drinkable water.
-Farmland available to feed the local culture.
-Cultural prejudices (including those that might interfere with admitting to or getting help for a disease like HIV/AIDS).
-Potential psychological challenges due to ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
-Diseases influenced by environmental conditions.
4- Examine the relationship among global, national, and local conditions as it relates to your selected region.
5- Identify a particular public health issue in the region as the focus of your project.
6- Examine the impact of social determiners on the health issue.
7- Describe how the interrelationship and interdependence of domestic and global public health systems affect the issue.