Post on 31-Dec-2015
description
Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Equity
and
The Impacts of Racism on the Health of our Nation
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhDResearch Director on Social Determinants of Health and
Equity
Emerging Investigations and Analytic Methods BranchDivision of Adult and Community Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Coordinating Center for Health PromotionCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the policies of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Equity
and
The Impacts of Racism on the Health of our Nation
Levels of health intervention
Medical care and tertiary prevention
Safety net programs and secondary prevention
Primary preventionAddressing thesocial determinants of health
But how do disparities arise?
• Differences in the quality of care received within the health care system
• Differences in access to health care, including preventive and curative services
• Differences in life opportunities, exposures, and stresses that result in differences in underlying health status
Through inequitiesH
ow
do d
ispari
ties
ari
se?
Through inequitiesH
ow
do d
ispari
ties
ari
se?
Exposures and opportunities
Through inequitiesH
ow
do d
ispari
ties
ari
se?
Access to care
Exposures and opportunities
Through inequitiesH
ow
do d
ispari
ties
ari
se?
Access to care
Qualityof care
Exposures and opportunities
Dif
fere
nces
in a
cces
s to
car
eDifferences in exposures and opportunities
Differences in quality of care(ambulance slow or goes the wrong way)
Addressing thesocial determinants of equity:
Why are there differencesin resourcesalong the cliff face?
Why are there differencesin who is foundat different parts of the cliff?
Determinants of health
Individual behaviors
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determinants of health and illness that are outside of the individual
Beyond genetic predispositions
Beyond individual behaviors
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determinants of health and illness that are outside of the individual
Beyond genetic predispositions
Beyond individual behaviors
The contexts in which individual behaviors arise
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Individual resourcesEducation, occupation, income, wealth
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Individual resourcesEducation, occupation, income, wealth
Neighborhood resourcesHousing, food choices, public safety, transportation, parks and recreation, political clout
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Individual resourcesEducation, occupation, income, wealth
Neighborhood resourcesHousing, food choices, public safety, transportation, parks and recreation, political clout
Hazards and toxic exposuresPesticides, lead, reservoirs of infection
Determinants of health
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Individual resourcesEducation, occupation, income, wealth
Neighborhood resourcesHousing, food choices, public safety, transportation, parks and recreation, political clout
Hazards and toxic exposuresPesticides, lead, reservoirs of infection
Opportunity structuresSchools, jobs, justice
Determinants of health
Determinants of health
Societal determinants of context
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Societal determinants of context
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determine the range ofobserved contexts
Determinants of health
Societal determinants of context
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determine the distribution of different populations into those contexts
Determine the range ofobserved contexts
Determinants of health
Societal determinants of context
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determine the distribution of different populations into those contexts
Determine the range ofobserved contexts
Include capitalism, racism, and other systems of power
Determinants of health
Societal determinants of context
Social determinants of health (contexts)
Individual behaviors
Determine the distribution of different populations into those contexts
Determine the range ofobserved contexts
Include capitalism, racism, and other systems of power
Determinants of health
The social determinants of equity
Addressing the social determinants of health
• Involves the medical care and public health systems, but clearly extends beyond these
• Requires collaboration with multiple sectors outside of health, including education, housing, labor, justice, transportation, agriculture, and environment
Addressing the social determinants of equity
• Involves monitoring for inequities in exposures and opportunities, as well as for disparities in outcomes
• Involves examination of structures, policies, practices, norms, and values to answer, “How are these inequities being maintained?”
• Requires intervention on societal structures and attention to systems of power
We need to do both
• Address the social determinants of health, including poverty, in order to achieve large and sustained improvements in health outcomes
• Address the social determinants of equity, including racism, in order to achieve social justice and eliminate health disparities
Levels of racism
• Institutionalized• Personally-mediated• Internalized
Institutionalized racism
• Differential access to the goods, services, and opportunities of society, by “race”
• Examples– Housing, education, employment, income– Medical facilities– Clean environment– Information, resources, voice
• Explains the association between SES and “race”
Personally-mediated racism
• Differential assumptions about the abilities, motives, and intents of others, by “race”
• Prejudice and discrimination• Examples
– Police brutality– Physician disrespect– Shopkeeper vigilance– Waiter indifference– Teacher devaluation
Internalized racism
• Acceptance by the stigmatized “races” of negative messages about our own abilities and intrinsic worth
• Examples– Self-devaluation– White man’s ice is colder– Resignation, helplessness, hopelessness
• Accepting limitations to our full humanity
Levels of Racism:
A Gardener’s Tale
Who is the gardener?
• Power to decide• Power to act• Control of
resources
Dangerous when• Allied with one
group• Not concerned with
equity
Our tasks
• Put racism on the agenda– Name racism as a force determining
the distribution of other social determinants of health
– Routinely monitor for differential exposures, opportunities, and outcomes by “race”
Our tasks
• Ask, “How is racism operating here?”– Identify mechanisms in structures,
policies, practices, and norms– Attend to both what exists and what
is lacking
Our tasks
• Organize and strategize to act– Join in grassroots organizing around
the conditions of people’s lives– Identify the structural factors creating
and perpetuating those conditions– Link with similar efforts across the
country and around the world
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
4770 Buford Highway NEMailstop K-67Atlanta, Georgia 30341
(770) 488-5268 phone(770) 488-5965 fax
cdj9@cdc.gov