Skip to content
What are social determinants of health? Explain how social determinants of health contribute to the development of disease. Describe the fundamental idea that the communicable disease chain model is designed to represent. Evaluate the steps a nurse can take to break the link within the communicable disease chain.
Resources within your text covering international/global health, and the websites in the topic Resources, will assist you in answering this discussion question.
A major role of the professional nurse is to evaluate the learning needs of individuals, families, and populations.
How do the Social Determinants of Health impact an individual’s learning needs?
What are some ways to overcome social determinant barriers to promote the health and wellness of patients or clients?
As a professional nurse, fully describe 2 ways that you can be an advocate for policy change to improve the health and wellness of those effected by social determinant barriers.
E-Poster presentation describing the characteristics of their assigned vulnerable population, social determinants of health, epidemiology, incidence, health care access for their specific population assigned, possible sources of education, and population-focused advocacy activities for this group.
using the paradigms of health, discuss the link between health and behavior. Describes how this relationship affects social determinants of health.
From your own clinical nursing experiences, you recognize that despite technological and biological advances in health care, progress has been slow in addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). These factors include socioeconomic status, environment (including air and water quality), food insecurity and food safety, education, employment, social networks, homelessness, and racism. In your essay, identify healthcare barriers for vulnerable populations, as discussed by authors Batt & Bathija (2018). In your work with diverse cultures and vulnerable populations, what social determinants of health (SDH) do you recognize? What strategies would you create (or have created) to meet the difficulties that issues such as food insecurity, cultural and racial inequities, language barriers present to you daily? In designing a strategic plan, incorporate other authors’ findings related to ethical principles of global health (McDermott-Levy, et al.,2018; Pronk, et al.,2021).
A 60-year-old man is brought to the ER by ambulance because of slurred speech and left side weakness. His wife states they went to bed at 11pm and woke up at 5am when she noticed his symptoms. He is right-handed with a history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia and a heart attack at age 50. He currently is unable to move his left arm and leg. He had an episode of amaurosis fugux (blindness)in his right eye one month ago that lasted for 5 minutes. Around 3 months ago his wife states he had bilateral pain in his legs while they were on a walk that lasted about 15 minutes. He is taking a baby aspirin a day an ACE inhibitor, and statin as well. He does have a history of alcohol use and smoking in the past but stopped after his heart attack. His blood pressure is 195/118 Pulse 106, Respiratory rate 18, Temperature 99.8, O2 sat is 97% on room air. Although his pupils are equal and reactive, and the ocular movements are intact, he is unable to turn his eyes voluntarily toward the left side. The neck is supple, there is no jugular vein distension, and there are no bruits. The lungs are clear heart sounds regular without murmurs, and abdomen is normal. The limbs are not well perfused distally. The neurologic examination reveals that he is alert and oriented, although he does not recognize he is sick. He shows loss of awareness and attention with respect to objects or stimuli on his left side. He has mild dysarthria but, his speech is fluent, and he understands and follows commands very well. There is mild weakness on the left side of the face and left sided homonymous hemaianopsia, but there is no nystagmus or ptosis, and no tongue or uvula deviation. He is not able to move his left arm and leg, has hyperreflexia, and the left great toe is upgoing. After reading the case scenario, please respond to the following questions: What are two questions you would ask this patient? Identify the subjective data for this patient. Identify the objective data for this patient. What Social Determinants of Health would be relevant for this patient? Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Explore the social determinants of health for your county of where you work or live: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/connecticut/hartford?year=2022
Describe how your county compares to the state using data to support your argument (or neighboring county) and what area you feel is most important for the nurse to address in your county.
State data available at: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/connecticut?year=2022
What are social determinants of health? Explain how social determinants of health contribute to the development of disease. Describe the fundamental idea that the communicable disease chain model is designed to represent. Give an example of the steps a nurse can take to break the link within the communicable disease chain.
Answer the following based on your windshield survey:
What is the role of community/public health nursing and community partnerships as they apply to your surveyed community?
What is the influence of social determinants of health, such as culture and access to resources, for your community?
In thinking of five social determinants of health as identified in Healthy People 2020, identify the social determinants specifically that may be barriers to home care and case or care management services, and explain why.