Social Determinant Paper

In order to improve population and community health, public health intervention, treatments, or initiatives must take into account the populations and communities social determinants (Shi, Hopkins, Tsai, & Kao, 2009). In the Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2008) report they listed a ton of successful programs that made sure that social determinants of that population would be addressed in order to better the community, I will discuss a couple. The first project is called Project Brave, which helped students off all ages realize what social determinants in there neighborhoods were the cause of the violent environment (CDC, 2008). This project was successful because they allowed the student to realize and accept what they were …show more content…
This program was successful at addressing all barriers in the social and physical environments that contribute to why women in these communities are at such a high risk for diabetes (CDC, 2008). Understanding ones environment, what they have available as resources to workout with, parks side walks, rec centers. Or what social environment are available to make healthy choices to eat, how many fast food restaurants are around. While researching what public health programs have failed to incorporate social determinants the most popular interventions often had to do with childhood obesity. It was shown that most childhood obesity prevention strategies did not thrive because researchers and public health officials did not know where to begin (Heitmann, Koplan, & Lissner, 2009). According to the World Health Organization [WHO] (2012), there are so many determinants to look at when dealing with childhood obesity, that most programs and interventions have to prioritize on one, thus leaving out other very important factors. One way to help with childhood obesity is to develop programs that are based off of what that community